medullary ray

1. 1.

   a sheet of vascular tissue separating the vascular bundles

   Synonymsvascular ray

   Broadervascular tissue

Questions about medullary ray

What does medullary ray mean?

medullary ray means "a sheet of vascular tissue separating the vascular bundles".

What is another word for medullary ray?

Close synonyms include vascular ray. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is medullary ray a common word?

medullary ray is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.