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eagle ray

DEFINITIONS OF: eagle ray

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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

Types:
Aetobatus narinari, spotted eagle ray, spotted ray
ray with back covered with white or yellow spots; widely distributed in warm seas
Rhinoptera bonasus, cow-nosed ray, cownose ray
large ray found along eastern coast of North America
Type of:
ray
cartilaginous fishes having horizontally flattened bodies and enlarged winglike pectoral fins with gills on the underside; most swim by moving the pectoral fins
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