Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of various rays of the family Dasyatidae, having a whiplike tail armed with one or more venomous spines capable of inflicting severe injury. Also called stingaree.
Wiktionary
- n. any of various large, venomous rays, of the orders Rajiformes and Myliobatiformes, having a barbed, whiplike tail
WordNet 3.0
- n. large venomous ray with large barbed spines near the base of a thin whiplike tail capable of inflicting severe wounds
Examples
“A new technology known as a 'stingray' is one of several being used by law enforcement to track people's locations.”
“There are over 175 types of rays that could be termed a stingray that have a barb at the base of their tail.”
“And typically, on that list you would not find the stingray on there, because getting stung by a stingray is a fairly common occurrence around the world.”
“There is also a fish called a stingray, which resembles a skate, only on one side of his tail grows out a sharp bone like a bodkin about four or five inches long, with which he sticks and wounds other fish and then preys upon them.”
“Tell us about the kind of stingray that cost Steve his life.”
“Hang Da's fish section offered tanks and tubs of live seafood, including rarities such as stingray, snail and several varieties of eel.”
“Maria uses silver, gold and diamonds; Pat Pruitt used steel and items such as stingray skin and industrial diamonds.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘stingray’.
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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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sharks, rays and skates
about 330 species of sharks
about 450 species of rays and
skatesangel shark, angelfish, basking shark, blue pointer blue..., bronze whaler, bull-head shark, carpet shark, devil ray, devilfish, dog shark, dogfish, elasmobranch and 119 more...
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Animals
pig, camel, ant, ape, donkey, badger, bat, beaver, bee, cat, dog, cow and 82 more...
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animals (2 syllable)
A list of common animal names. Keep the list to 2 syllable words.No scientific names. No proper names like 'Fluffy' the elephant.Insects and other creatures (even ficticious like 'dragon') are we...
baboon, rabbit, raptor, dragon, camel, hornet, llama, cobra, cheetah, penguin, puppy, dolphin 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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Rillons of Random Palavery
A list for terms and phrases that I haven't (yet) entered into themed lists, including my series of various 151-word Random Palavery lists. Constructions that catch my eye, ring in my ears, tease m...
ridge cucumber, co-CEO, debt worry, jackalope bustiere, gimblette, ring-biscuit, cobnut, poussoir, praire, coque rayée, rigadelle, coing and 1459 more...
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Henry's Favorite Song
being sorts of Fish
fish, walleye, bass, catfish, carp, pike, sunfish, cod, monkfish, salmon, tuna, shark and 59 more...
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List 1
This is my first, absolutely magnificent word list.
melancholy, drivel, strange, simple, cryptic, diminutive, fiddling, poached, mobility, marking, stingray
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stories
edge
mysterious
unwilling
sacrifice
hummingbirds
stingray
suit
spine
delighted
random
sighedge, mysterious, sacrifice, spine, random, stingray, hummingbirds, unwilling, suit, sigh, delighted, childish and 34 more...
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