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Definition of Devil ray
1. Noun. Small manta (to 4 feet) that travels in schools.
Generic synonyms: Devilfish, Manta, Manta Ray
Group relationships: Genus Mobula, Mobula
Lexicographical Neighbors of Devil Ray
Literary usage of Devil ray
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Shell-fish Industries by James Lawrence Kellogg (1910)
"... also, the "devil ray," an enormous creature having a width of eighteen or
twenty feet, and weighing, in some cases, as much as twelve hundred pounds. ..."
2. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington by Biological Society of Washington (1914)
"Vice-President Bartech in the chair and 37 persons present. William Palmer
exhibited the head and the plaster cast of the head of the small devil ray ..."
3. Records of Big Game: With Their Distribution, Characteristics, Dimensions by Rowland Ward (1899)
"... and there is an interesting chapter on other eccentric marine monsters, He
heard doubtful talk of a devil's ray, said to be 20 feet in diameter; ..."
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