English Explanatory Dictionary

eagle ray

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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.

Word forms

eagle ray eagle rays

Etymology

A calque of translingual Aetobatus (literally “eagle-ray”).

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