Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of several marine fishes of the family Rhinobatidae, having a guitar-shaped body and related to the skates and rays.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A shark-like ray of the family Rhinobatidæ, inhabiting warm seas; specifically, Rhinobatus productus.
Wiktionary
- n. Any of the fish in the Rhinobatidae family of rays.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A primitive tropical bottom-dwelling ray of the family
Rhinobatidae with a guitar-shaped body.
WordNet 3.0
- n. primitive tropical bottom-dwelling ray with a guitar-shaped body
Examples
“Do a google image search of "guitarfish" if you'd like to see several other examples of this species.”
“Migrant pelagic include tunnies Thunnus spp., smalltooth sawfish Pristis pectinata guitarfish Rhinobatos spp., and smooth hammerhead shark Sphyrna zygaena.”
“Endless Ocean This game is nothing less than a drug-trip simulator, immersing you in an "ocean" of pharmaceutical stimulation where you view such long-standing symbols of drug culture as dolphins, humpback whales and bowmouth guitarfish.”
“The Gulf is an area valuable to science, increasingly important for tourism and is an important economic fishery, especially for blue shrimp, corvina, northern milkfish, sierra, manta ray, guitarfish, shark, crab and clam.”
Islands and Protected Areas of the Gulf of California, Mexico
“Many of the pieces reference nautical themes, from glistening metal benches shaped like a school of shovelnose guitarfish by Leslie Bruning, to Russell Baldon's "Moor" chairs made of cypress trees that are fastened to metal bollards like ships.”
“The 80 animals on display include cownose rays, guitarfish, leopard whiptail rays, epaulette sharks, zebra sharks, and blacknose sharks.”
“At a glace it looks like a demented guitarfish but I don't think that's what it actually is.”
“Species such as the Spot-tail shark, Bowmouth guitarfish and the Blacktip Shark are also being targeted and they are classified as vulnerable," Mr Teasdale said.”
“Sharks, ray, and guitarfish all belong to the subclass Elasmobranchii within the cartilaginous fish class Chondrichthyes.”
“Eventually, I see the lagoon's shyer inhabitant, the guitarfish, whose body markings and shape resemble an upside down guitar.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘guitarfish’.
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fish list
lots and lots of fish, a piscatorial
wetdreamablet, agnathan, ahi, ahuru, ahuruhuru, albacore, albicore, alec, alewife, allice, allis, amberjack and 840 more...
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The Organism Orchestra
List of organism names, common or scientific, with a musical instrument as part of the name, such as banjofish, or words and phrases such as birdsong or dawn chorus that suggest music produced by a...
banjofish, birdsong, dawn chorus, fiddler crab, piano fangblenny, trumpeter swan, banjo catfish, harp seal, songbird, guitarfish, cornetfish, flutefish and 53 more...
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rays & x-rays
raised rays
cow-nosed ray, x-ray, roentgenogram, radiogram, sunray, tomograph, whipparee, oxeye, thulium, raster, moonbeam, robinia and 86 more...
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Underwaterritory
When you're underwater, what do you see or experience? Let's dive...
(Here's a cute little related list called Fishful Thinking...)underwater, curglaff, submarine, underwater habitat, diving bell, paravane, bottom trawling, sediment traps, torpedo, mines, shipwreck, sonar and 214 more...
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Names of fish that end in -fish.
paddlefish, goldfish, catfish, crayfish, swordfish, whitefish, monkfish, goosefish, anglerfish, jellyfish, lungfish, blackfish and 18 more...
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