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Fish identified by its angry writhing
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stingray
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ The greatest threat to humans comes from the stingrays, large flatfish that lie inconspicuously on the seabed in shallow waters. ▪ Three stingrays glide past like abandoned white pocket handkerchiefs.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. large venomous ray with large barbed spines near the base of a thin whiplike tail capable of inflicting severe wounds
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 Any of various large, venomous rays, of the orders Rajiformes and Myliobatiformes, having a barbed, whiplike tail. 2 (context lang=en US law enforcement) a cell site simulator, a simulator of a cell tower allowing the interception of mobile phone phone ...
Usage examples of stingray.
Chips and the bosun stealing away without a sound: they and their party mean to lay out the work early and start the tar-kettle a-going well in advance, and Joe Gower is taking his fishgig in the hope of some of those well-tasting stingrays that lie in the shallows by night.
Lampong led the way to a long house on stilts above the water, which served as a sleeping area and mess hall for the men who would depart on the mission that Martin knew as Stingray and Lampong as al-Isra.
I was about your age, I stood right here and watched him catch a fourteen-pound muttonfish off the wings of a stingray.
Blackened pages of old magazines, little more than large flakes of ash, glided lazily toward them through the air, like stingrays seeking prey, and great schools of tiny lanternfish swam overhead in sinuous parades, sometimes extinguishing themselves when they collided with the maze walls, but in other places sparking small new fires, not yet attracted downward to the hair and clothes that they would eventually find so tasty.
There were low whines as the battery-driven twin motors in the Stingrays kicked their twin propellers into action.
Passing the mouth of the Rappahannock, by some called the Tappahannock, where in shoal water were many fish lurking in the weeds, Smith had his first experience of the Stingray.