Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various marine cartilaginous fishes chiefly of the family Rhinobatidae, having a flattened guitar-shaped body, with the pectoral fins fused to the sides of the head.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A shark-like ray of the family Rhinobatidæ, inhabiting warm seas; specifically, Rhinobatus productus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A primitive tropical bottom-dwelling ray of the family
Rhinobatidae with a guitar-shaped body.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of the fish in the Rhinobatidae family of
rays .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun primitive tropical bottom-dwelling ray with a guitar-shaped body
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Quote: "Russian Fishermen Catch Squeaking Alien and Eat It" fusenumber8 2007
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Migrant pelagic include tunnies Thunnus spp., smalltooth sawfish Pristis pectinata guitarfish Rhinobatos spp., and smooth hammerhead shark Sphyrna zygaena.
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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.
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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 2008
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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.
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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.
SFGate: Top News Stories home@sfchronicle.com (Nancy Davis Kho 2011
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The 80 animals on display include cownose rays, guitarfish, leopard whiptail rays, epaulette sharks, zebra sharks, and blacknose sharks.
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At a glace it looks like a demented guitarfish but I don't think that's what it actually is.
Documenting Reality guttsfukk 2010
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At a glace it looks like a demented guitarfish but I don't think that's what it actually is.
Documenting Reality guttsfukk 2010
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"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.
bilby commented on the word guitarfish
Rumoured to hang out with trumpetfish and bandfish.
October 5, 2021