pedicle vs ray

pedicle and ray both are nouns.

pedicle is not a verb while ray is a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
pedicle	Yes	No	No	No
ray	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, ray is a hyponym of pedicle; that is, ray is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than pedicle:

pedicle: a small stalk bearing a single flower of an inflorescence; an ultimate division of a common peduncle
ray: a branch of an umbel or an umbelliform inflorescence

pedicle (noun)	ray (noun)
a small stalk bearing a single flower of an inflorescence; an ultimate division of a common peduncle	cartilaginous fishes having horizontally flattened bodies and enlarged winglike pectoral fins with gills on the underside; most swim by moving the pectoral fins
	any of the stiff bony spines in the fin of a fish
	the syllable naming the second (supertonic) note of any major scale in solmization
	a column of light (as from a beacon)
	a group of nearly parallel lines of electromagnetic radiation
	a branch of an umbel or an umbelliform inflorescence
	(mathematics) a straight line extending from a point

pedicle (verb)	ray (verb)
	expose to radiation
	extend or spread outward from a center or focus or inward towards a center
	emit as rays

Difference between pedicle and ray

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