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sting ray
[sting n.2]
Any fish of the genus Trygon or family Trygonidæ, esp. Trygon pastinaca. The long tapering tail is armed near the middle with a flattened sharp-pointed bony spine, serrated on both sides, capable of inflicting a severe wound.
1624Capt. Smith Virginia ii. 27 Stingraies, whose tailes are very dangerous. 1676T. Glover Acc. Virginia in Phil. Trans. II. 625 There is also a fish called a Sting-ray, which much resembleth a Skate, only on one side of his tayl grows out a sharp bone like a bodkin about four or five inches long. 1881Cassell's Nat. Hist. V. 43 The Sting Rays form a large family, about twenty-four species of the genus Trygon being known. |
