stingray
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- noun
- /ˈstɪŋˌreɪ/
:
raya
- The diver was cautious as he observed the stingray hiding under the sand, aware of its painful sting.
- stingrays and sharks
- stingray spines
- eagle ray and stingray
There were three massive Stingrays that swam right beneath us.
- There were three massive Stingrays that swam right beneath us.
- Also my mom just saw a Stingray in the water so I'm just scared.
- Like right next to us there's a Stingray.
- Now the water is you've got Cayman, you've got electric eels, you've got Stingray, you've got piranha.
- I've seen freaking Stingrays, thousands of mullet, so many mullet.
Examples
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The tanks were as big as our console stereo, alive with nurse sharks, lionfish, seahorses, pink coral, and stingrays.
Fiction book (1996) -
There were three massive Stingrays that swam right beneath us.
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Okay, have you ever seen a stingray?
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Also my mom just saw a Stingray in the water so I'm just scared.
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Look, we're walking back to our Hut and there's a Stingray in the water.
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And so you might see in a nature video a stingray swimming along the sandy bottom and then digging down and finding a crab.
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We see a sea turtle, then we see like hundreds of Stingrays swimming beneath us.
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Keep your eye out for stingrays and catfish.
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We will plant okra and cook stingray okra curry.
Fiction book (2002) -
We swam with Stingrays and now we're just chilling.
Synonyms
A large flat sea animal with a very wide body and a short tail
Compounds
- Specialized
A large flat sea animal with a rough tail that lives from Cape Cod to Cape Hatteras
How Dangerous
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Stingray comes from the two simple parts sting and ray, where sting means 'to prick' or 'give a sharp pain' and ray is a flat sea fish. So a stingray is literally a ray with a tail that can sting, which explains its name and its painful wound.