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octoradiant

octoradiant adjective: having eight rays.

Adjective

octoradiant (not comparable)

  1. (rare) Having eight rays.
    • He affixed to his breast the octoradiant star, so much larger and more lustrous than any actual star in heaven.1911, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson
    • There you will see seated at a long narrow table some thirty men, each betopped with a halo denoting Boston, each having affixed on his breast an octoradiant star upon which is superimposed the numerals 1926 […].1926, Technology Review, volume 29, page 259

Origin of octoradiant

From octo- + radiant.

Questions about octoradiant

What does octoradiant mean?
Octoradiant means having eight rays.
What part of speech is octoradiant?
Octoradiant is an adjective.

Words near octoradiant in the dictionary

  1. octopussy
  2. octopusy
  3. octopyranose
  4. octopyranoses
  5. octoradial
  6. octoradiant
  7. octoradiate
  8. octoradiated
  9. Octorara
  10. Octoraro
  11. octoroon

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