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Usually harmless but its size make it dangerous if harpooned
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devilfish
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 Any of several unrelated marine animals 2 # manta ray 3 # octopus 4 # gray whale 5 # the goosefish or angler (''Lophius''), and other allied fishes
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cephaloptera \Ceph`a*lop"te*ra\ (s[e^]f`[.a]*l[o^]p"t[-e]*r[.a]), n. [NL., fr. Gr. kefalh` head + ptero`n wing.] (Zo["o]l.) One of the generic names of the gigantic ray ( Manta birostris ) of the family Mobulidae , known as devilfish , sea devil , manta ...
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Devilfish or devil fish may refer to one of the following:
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. medium-sized grayish-black whale of the northern Pacific [syn: gray whale , Eschrichtius gibbosus , Eschrichtius robustus ] bottom-living cephalopod having a soft oval body with eight long tentacles [syn: octopus ] extremely large pelagic tropical ray ...
Usage examples of devilfish.
Her sonar showed Devilfish had gotten off the first two shots, the USS Allentown had been slow to get off a counterfire but had nearly sunk Devilfish.
With the Russian subs on the coastline, only Devilfish and Allentown were this far north, everyone else was tied down with the Russian attack boats.
The Devilfish was 5000 meters from the blast, the Kaliningrad almost 7000.
They had not intended to spend the afternoon, but found themselves too fascinated to turn away from the breakers bursting upon the rocks and from the many kinds of colorful sea life starfish, crabs, mussels, sea anemones, and, once, in a rock-pool, a small devilfish that chilled their blood when it cast the hooded net of its body around the small crabs they tossed to it.
Byron sang out, as the Devilfish nosed alongside the pier, 'Holy smoke, it's my father.
The sleek hoods of the loges are an evanescent blue shading along a lateral line to a hue subtle as the bronze tint on a mushroom, lending them an eerily organic look, like hovering skates or devilfish.
Overhead on the surface of the sea, four slick white bubbly torpedo wakes certainly led straight to the Devilfish.
The Devilfish working party lay sprawled in exhausted attitudes, all except Hansen, who sat smoking a pipe with his back to a huge tire of the truck on which Byron perched.