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unrayed

unrayed adjective: not exposed to radiation.

Adjective

unrayed (not comparable)

  1. Not exposed to radiation.
    • […] but what attracted Steenbock's attention was the fact that when the rayed rats were put, after their treatment, into the same cage as their unrayed brother controls, these unrayed rats also began to grow.1943, Cushman Davis Haagensen, Wyndham Edward Buckley Lloyd, A Hundred Years of Medicine, page 164

Origin of unrayed

From un- + rayed.

Questions about unrayed

What does unrayed mean?
Unrayed means not exposed to radiation.
What part of speech is unrayed?
Unrayed is an adjective.

Words near unrayed in the dictionary

  1. unravelments
  2. unravels
  3. unravished
  4. unravishing
  5. unravisht
  6. unrayed
  7. unrazed
  8. unrazored
  9. unreabsorbed
  10. unreaccelerated
  11. unreach

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