eagle ray
Any of a group of cartilaginous fishes in the family Myliobatidae, consisting mostly…Any of a group of cartilaginous fishes in the family Myliobatidae, consisting mostly of large species living in the open ocean rather than on the sea bottom.
» Watch out! Don't mess with the spotted eagle ray when you go fishing; they're sacred.
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1 sensesAny of a group of cartilaginous fishes in the family Myliobatidae, consisting mostly of large species living in the open ocean rather than on the sea bottom.
- powerful free-swimming tropical ray noted for ‘soaring’ by flapping winglike fins; usually harmless but has venomous tissue near base of the tail as in stingrays
Examples
1 sentencesWatch out! Don't mess with the spotted eagle ray when you go fishing; they're sacred.
Origin
A calque of translingual Aetobatus (literally “eagle-ray”).A calque of translingual Aetobatus (literally “eagle-ray”).
Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
Forms
plural: eagle rays| Singular | eagle ray |
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See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.