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BUTTERFLY RAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does butterfly ray mean? 

BUTTERFLY RAY (noun)
  The noun BUTTERFLY RAY has 1 sense:

1. a stingray with a short tail and a broad finplay

  Familiarity information: BUTTERFLY RAY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BUTTERFLY RAY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A stingray with a short tail and a broad fin

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("butterfly ray" is a kind of...):

stingray (large venomous ray with large barbed spines near the base of a thin whiplike tail capable of inflicting severe wounds)

Holonyms ("butterfly ray" is a member of...):

genus Gymnura; Gymnura (butterfly rays)


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