(botany) Having a ray-like appearance, like the large marginal flowers of certain umbelliferous plants; said also of the cluster which has such marginal flowers.
“Her image glittered in his mind, a radiant light that would guide him back out of the terror of his dreams and into the sane, rational world of the living.”
“Above the nunnery was the clear and radiant sky, very blue and all full of floating clouds.”
“There was a radiant glow on her face as she warmly embraced Bornani.”
radiate
Radiating from a center; having rays or parts diverging from a center; radiated.
Surrounded by rays, such as the head of a saint in a religious picture.
(botany) Having parts radiating from the center, like the petals in many flowers.