EAGLE RAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does eagle ray mean? 

• EAGLE RAY (noun)
  The noun EAGLE RAY has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: EAGLE RAY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EAGLE RAY (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

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Nouns denoting animals

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)