English edit

Etymology edit

From octo- +‎ radiant.

Adjective edit

octoradiant (not comparable)

  1. (rare) Having eight rays.
    • 1911, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson:
      He affixed to his breast the octoradiant star, so much larger and more lustrous than any actual star in heaven.
    • 1926, Technology Review, volume 29, page 259:
      There you will see seated at a long narrow table some thirty men, each betopped with a halo denoting Boston, each having affixed on his breast an octoradiant star upon which is superimposed the numerals 1926 […].