electric ray

1. 1.

   any sluggish bottom-dwelling ray of the order Torpediniformes having a rounded body and electric organs on each side of the head capable of emitting strong electric discharges

   Synonymscrampfishnumbfishtorpedo

   Broaderray

   Part ofTorpedinidae

Questions about electric ray

What does electric ray mean?

electric ray means "any sluggish bottom-dwelling ray of the order Torpediniformes having a rounded body and electric organs on each side of the head capable of emitting strong electric discharges".

What is another word for electric ray?

Close synonyms include crampfish, numbfish, torpedo. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is electric ray a common word?

electric 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.