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manta rays

n. (manta ray English)

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

They moved out, sailing down the mountain like the manta rays for which they had been named.

Sheathed in bronze-hued metal, the ships held the general shape and outlines of seagoing manta rays, and as such they were little more than flattened wedges with wings.

Slyne's quadruplets - it would have been impolite to inquire whether they were actually his own - looked like little bloated manta rays, pale and trailing almost useless tentacles, forever bumping into their master or each other and getting themselves tangled in their tethers.

From out of the gloom of the depths rose a school of what appeared at first to be manta rays.

Sweeping toward them from the far end of the corridor was a swarm of fearful creatures, swift and silent as manta rays but hideous beyond description.

If manta rays are going to be harmless, they should look more harmless, Pardee thought.

But instead of the soft, plankton-gathering mouths of manta rays they had vertically slit mouths lined with sharklike teeth.

It was impossible to get a very good look at them, but they looked almost disk shaped, and they moved like manta rays.

Will he make that grim connection when my attorney starts screaming about bats and huge manta rays coming down on the car?

Giant groupers and manta rays swam through graceful jellyfish as they frolicked amid the vividly colored coral.

And about the creature's cousins, the great manta rays, big as flying saucers, that could sail up out of the water and smack down from above.