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Dangerous fish
Answer for the clue "Dangerous fish ", 8 letters:
stingray
Alternative clues for the word stingray
- Servant’s opening can of silvery American fish
- Large fish with tail spine
- Large venomous fish — it's angry (anag)
- Fish, Cornish cheese, and eggs rejected
- Sharp-spined fish
- Fish eggs turned grey, reportedly
- Large venomous ray with large barbed spines near the base of a thin whiplike tail capable of inflicting severe wounds
Word definitions for stingray in dictionaries
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.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Stingrays are a group of rays , which are cartilaginous fish related to sharks . They are classified in the suborder Myliobatoidei of the order Myliobatiformes and consist of eight families: Hexatrygonidae (sixgill stingray), Plesiobatidae (deepwater stingray), ...
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.