manta rayとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Spanish manta (“blanket”), after the blanket-shaped trap used to catch them.

発音

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmæntə ɹeɪ/

名詞

manta ray (複数形 manta rays)

1. Any of several very large pelagic rays formerly of the genus Manta, now placed in genus Mobula, with winglike pectoral fins, a long tail, and two fins resembling horns that project from the head.
   • 2020, Jenny Offill, Weather, Granta Books (2021), page 181:

     My favorite are the manta rays. We watch them wing past. The have the largest brain of any fish, I remember.

   Synonyms: manta, sea pancake, majestic flap-flap, majestic sea flap-flap

Further reading

• manta ray on Wikipedia.
• Mobula birostris on Wikispecies.