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Answer for the clue "Large fish ", 9 letters:
eagle ray

Word definitions for eagle ray in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Any of a group of cartilaginous fishes in the family ''(taxlink Myliobatidae family noshow=1)'', consisting mostly of large species living in the open ocean rather than on the sea bottom.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. powerful free-swimming tropical ray noted for `soaring' by flapping winglike fins; usually harmless but has venomous tissue near base of the tail as in stingrays

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Eagle \Ea"gle\, n. [OE. egle, F. aigle, fr. L. aquila; prob. named from its color, fr. aquilus dark-colored, brown; cf. Lith. aklas blind. Cf. Aquiline .] (Zo["o]l.) Any large, rapacious bird of the Falcon family, esp. of the genera Aquila and Hali[ae]etus ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
The eagle rays are a group of cartilaginous fishes in the family Myliobatidae , consisting mostly of large species living in the open ocean rather than on the sea bottom. Eagle rays feed on mollusks and crustaceans , crushing their shells with their flattened ...

Usage examples of eagle ray.

Once they swam over a patch of marine growth perhaps twenty feet long and ten wide, and a huge eagle ray lifted from it and glided off like a weird futuristic airplane.