guitarfish

1 9.6

A flat fish with a body shaped like a guitar that lives in warm shallow coastal waters

noun
/ɡɪˈtɑrˌfɪʃ/

: pez guitarra

Specifically, the muscles of the guitarfish are consumed in traditional dishes (e.g., shish kebab, doner kebab) in these regions (Karalar, 2005).
guitarfish and stingray
guitarfish and smooth-hound

Examples

The amount of Cd in the liver oil of the guitarfish (0.03 mg/kg, on average) was found to be very close to the amount found in stingrays.

Academic text (2015)
In this study, each guitarfish was considered to be mature according to the Karalar (2005) classification.

Academic text (2015)
The other five cartilaginous fish ranked by weight (g) in descending order were eagle ray, stingray, cownose ray, guitarfish, and smooth-hound.

Academic text (2015)
There are plenty of tropical fish to see too, including colored frogfish, deadly dragon moray eels with their distinctive red and white bodies, plus, if you're lucky, bowmouth guitarfish and families of whale sharks.

Blog text (3)
While scuba diving, I spotted a guitarfish gliding gracefully along the sandy bottom.
The local fishermen often catch a guitarfish when they cast their nets in the shallow waters.
A guitarfish has a distinctive flat, guitar-shaped body that helps it blend into its coastal surroundings.

Synonyms

ray

vsguitarfish

9 4.2

A flat fish with wide fins that looks like wings

is a specific coastal bottom-dwelling type with a guitar-shaped body

Surface Forms

guitarfish singular

guitarfishes plural

Morphology

guitarfish = guitar + fish (transparent) = guitar + fish

The compound denotes a fish whose body resembles a guitar; the meaning is directly inferable from the two components.

Etymology

Guitarfish comes from the English words guitar and fish because its flat body and pointed tail look like a guitar, the stringed 'instrument'. So a guitarfish is a ray with a guitar-shaped body that lives on the sea floor.