butterfly ray

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   a stingray with a short tail and a broad fin

   Broaderstingray

   Part ofGymnura

Questions about butterfly ray

What does butterfly ray mean?

butterfly ray means "a stingray with a short tail and a broad fin".

Is butterfly ray a common word?

butterfly ray is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.