skate
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- noun
- /skeɪt/
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raya
- It's a small, boutique-style dining room with dishes like skate with Indian eggplant and lemon brown butter.
- skates and rays
Examples
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Nonetheless, crabs occasionally prey on seahorses, as do large fish such as tuna, snappers, skates, and rays.
Academic text (1990) -
The fish were bottom dwellers like red drum, black drum, croaker, sea catfish, skate, and flounder.
Academic text (2006) -
The males are believed to have a much larger variety of diet, including rays, skates, ratfish, small sharks, and hagfish.
Academic text (2009) -
Prey consumed included windowpane flounder, silver hake, sand lance, skates, and gadids.
Academic text (2000) -
The chef served a delicious piece of skate with garlic butter and lemon.
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Grilled skate is a popular dish in many seafood restaurants along the coast.
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During our visit to the market, I saw freshly caught skate displayed next to other fish.
Synonyms
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An animal that lives in water, breathes with gills, and has fins and scales
A large flat fish with gray skin that people often eat
A flat fish with spines on its back that lives on cold ocean floors
Idioms
- Informal
To focus on your own work and not get involved in other people's work
Compounds
- Specialized
A large flat fish like a ray that lives in the western Atlantic and is often caught
- Specialized
A small flat fish that lives in shallow waters near North American coasts
How Big
Surface Forms
Etymology
Skate for the fish comes from an old Norse word skata for a flat sea creature that 'glides' through water. That's why this fish is called a skate and why it swims with wide, wing-like movements.