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: any of numerous rays (as of the family Dasyatidae) with one or more large sharp barbed dorsal spines near the base of the whiplike tail capable of inflicting severe wounds
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These stingray sightings have continued ever since.
—Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 21 May 2024
This year, the city also welcomed the Daytona Aquarium and Rainforest Adventure, a 55,000-square-foot facility with a 110,000-gallon shark tank and a 12,000-gallon stingray touch pool, among other features.
—Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 16 May 2024
For an amphibious soul, the height of joy comes with underwater tracking: Foster taught himself to see tracks of mollusks in the sand atop the back of a stingray, or an octopus's predation marks on a shell.
—Barbara J. King, NPR, 13 May 2024
Steve was killed by a stingray in 2006 while filming for TV.
—Brian Anthony Hernandez, Peoplemag, 7 Apr. 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1624, in the meaning defined above
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“Stingray.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stingray. Accessed 6 Jun. 2024.
Kids Definition
stingray
noun
sting·ray
ˈstiŋ-ˌrā
: any of numerous rays that have one or more large sharp stinging spines near the base of the whiplike tail
Medical Definition
stingray
noun
sting·ray
ˈstiŋ-ˌrā also -rē
: any of numerous large flat cartilaginous fishes (order Rajiformes and especially family Dasyatidae) with one or more large sharp barbed dorsal spines near the base of the whiplike tail capable of inflicting severe wounds
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