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EAGLE RAY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("eagle ray" is a kind of...):
ray (cartilaginous fishes having horizontally flattened bodies and enlarged winglike pectoral fins with gills on the underside; most swim by moving the pectoral fins)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "eagle ray"):
Aetobatus narinari; spotted eagle ray; spotted ray (ray with back covered with white or yellow spots; widely distributed in warm seas)
cow-nosed ray; cownose ray; Rhinoptera bonasus (large ray found along eastern coast of North America)
Holonyms ("eagle ray" is a member of...):
family Myliobatidae; Myliobatidae (eagle rays)
