A manta ray is an enormous flat fish that seems to fly underwater. Swim with a manta ray.
It can be seven metres across and eats nothing bigger than plankton. A manta ray has the largest brain of any fish and appears to recognise individual divers.
1nounmanta rayAn enormous flat fish that seems to fly underwater.
“A manta ray passed under the boat twice in ten minutes.”
manta ray is a fish.
Spanish mantarraya is manta, a blanket or cloak, plus raya, a ray.
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manta ray
From Spanish mantarraya, itself a compound from manta and raya; according to Jorge Juan y Santacilia and Antonio de Ulloa, so called “for being broad and long like a quilt”.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
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