manta ray

Questions about manta ray

What is another word for manta ray?

It depends which manta ray you mean. In the sense “extremely large pelagic tropical ray that feeds on plankton and small fishes; usually harmless but its size make it dangerous if harpooned”, the synonyms are manta, devilfish. Across all 1 sense there are 2 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of manta ray?

WordNet records no antonym for manta ray. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for manta ray come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of manta ray

• Full entry for manta rayAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for manta rayWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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