What is "raia radiata"

Starry \Star"ry\ (st[aum]r"r[y^]), a.

1. Abounding with stars; adorned with stars. ``Above the starry sky.''
   --Pope.

2. Consisting of, or proceeding from, the stars; stellar; stellary; as, starry light; starry flame.

   Do not Christians and Heathens, Jews and Gentiles, poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influence?
   --Sir W. Scott.

3. Shining like stars; sparkling; as, starry eyes.

4. Arranged in rays like those of a star; stellate.

   Starry ray (Zo["o]l.), a European skate ( Raia radiata); -- so called from the stellate bases of the dorsal spines.

Ray \Ray\, n. [F. raie, L. raia. Cf. Roach.] (Zo["o]l.)

1. Any one of numerous elasmobranch fishes of the order Rai[ae], including the skates, torpedoes, sawfishes, etc.

2. In a restricted sense, any of the broad, flat, narrow-tailed species, as the skates and sting rays. See Skate.

   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.