| NOUN | animal | eagle ray | powerful free-swimming tropical ray noted for 'soaring' by flapping winglike fins |
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| Meaning | 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. | |
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| Member of | Myliobatidae, family Myliobatidae | eagle rays |
| Narrower | cownose ray, cow-nosed ray, Rhinoptera bonasus | large ray found along eastern coast of North America |
| spotted eagle ray, spotted ray, Aetobatus narinari | ray with back covered with white or yellow spots | |
| Broader | ray | cartilaginous fishes having horizontally flattened bodies and enlarged winglike pectoral fins with gills on the underside |
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