rayless
(adjective) having no parts resembling rays; not having ray flowers
Source: WordNet® 3.1
rayless (not comparable)
Lacking rays
Lightless, gloomy
(botany) Lacking florets
• Salyers, Saylers, slayers
Source: Wiktionary
Ray"less, a.
Definition: Destitute of rays; hence, dark; not illuminated; blind; as, a rayless sky; rayless eyes.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
25 November 2024
(noun) infestation with slender threadlike roundworms (filaria) deposited under the skin by the bite of black fleas; when the eyes are involved it can result in blindness; common in Africa and tropical America
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
