Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A batoid fish, the horned ray, Cephaloptera or Dicerobatis giorna.

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  • Sharks then and their congeners, as the fox-shark and the dog-fish, and the flat fishes, such as the electric ray, the ray, the smooth skate, and the trygon, are first oviparous and then viviparous in the way above mentioned, (as are also the saw-fish and the ox-ray.)

    The History of Animals 2002

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