Found 2 items, similar to devil ray.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: devil ray
devil ray
n : small manta (to 4 feet) that travels in schools [syn:
Mobula hypostoma
]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Devil ray
Ray
\Ray\, n. [F. raie, L. raia. Cf.
Roach.] (Zo["o]l.)
(a) Any one of numerous elasmobranch fishes of the order
Rai[ae], including the skates, torpedoes, sawfishes, etc.
(b) In a restricted sense, any of the broad, flat,
narrow-tailed species, as the skates and sting rays. See
Skate.
[1913 Webster]
Bishop ray, a yellow-spotted, long-tailed eagle ray
(
Stoasodon n[`a]rinari) of the Southern United States
and the West Indies.
Butterfly ray, a short-tailed American sting ray
(
Pteroplatea Maclura), having very broad pectoral fins.
Devil ray. See
Sea Devil.
Eagle ray, any large ray of the family
Myliobatid[ae], or
[AE]tobatid[ae]. The common European species
(
Myliobatis aquila) is called also
whip ray, and
miller.
Electric ray, or
Cramp ray, a torpedo.
Starry ray, a common European skate (
Raia radiata).
Sting ray, any one of numerous species of rays of the
family
Trygonid[ae] having one or more large, sharp,
barbed dorsal spines on the whiplike tail. Called also
stingaree.
[1913 Webster]