Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun eagle_ray

1 sense of eagle ray

Sense 1
eagle ray -- (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)
       => ray -- (cartilaginous fishes having horizontally flattened bodies and enlarged winglike pectoral fins with gills on the underside; most swim by moving the pectoral fins)