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GREY SKATE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does grey skate mean?
• GREY SKATE (noun)
The noun GREY SKATE has 1 sense:
1. common European skate used as food
Familiarity information: GREY SKATE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Common European skate used as food
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
gray skate; grey skate; Raja batis
Hypernyms ("grey skate" is a kind of...):
skate (large edible rays having a long snout and thick tail with pectoral fins continuous with the head; swim by undulating the edges of the pectoral fins)
Holonyms ("grey skate" is a member of...):
genus Raja; Raja (type genus of the family Rajidae)
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