____ ray (fish)

Usage examples of manta.

Like the huipil blouse and skirt worn by the india and half-caste women, hundreds of male figures in the rough cotton shirt, pants, and woven maguey mantas would throng the plaza.

I carried the traditional indio manta over my right shoulder and under my left arm and a blanket rolled up around a woven maguey rope over my left shoulder.

At the end of the first rammer mission, if she survived, Tasia would regain command of a Manta cruiser, perhaps even a Juggernaut.

Manta continued its search for signs of the rammer fleet, lifepods with the human captains, or even hydrogue wreckage.

It was a world of ceralean blues, deep-velvet purples, inked greens, of wide brainstone coral cliffs and deep-bottomed troughs where the sea turned black in the chartless depths--a world of eel and octopus and squid, of the soldier crab and the loggerhead turtle, of jeweled angelfish, gliding manta rays, and great blue marlin.

Thus we will patent the Cadbury clown fish, the British Petroleum stag coral, the Marks and Spencer moray eel, the Royal Bank of Scotland angelfish, and gliding silently overhead, the British Airways manta ray.

With lures and one of the baitfish that had survived the encounter with the manta ray, we began to fish in earnest, knowing that what we caught was the only thing that would keep us alive.

She cleaned out hundreds of urchin nests, destroyed infestations of fireworms that had wrapped themselves around electrical cables and caused crippling overvoltages, went up against and killed makos and mantas and spinners.

It looked something like a cross between a dolphin and a very large, very fat manta ray with a pair of long tails trailing behind it.

Including the silken muchacha in Veracruz for whom I swirled my manta as a cape.

Manta thought as the big Qanska hovered there between two of his fellow Counselors, looking strong and almost regal.

The two other Counselors, Manta noted, seemed oddly still, despite their flapping fins.

Fifty feet long, with wings spanning a distance something greater than that, it formed a shape similar to the great mantas of Earth, with a long trailing tail for balance.

The belemnites were cigar-shaped shells completely surrounded by flesh, almost like little manta rays with backbones fused.

As the creature's fifty-foot span of membranous manta wing, spongy flesh, cartilage and alveolate bone swooped low overhead, Harry leaped and snatched at the harness fittings under its neck.