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manta
1[ man-tuh; Spanish mahn-tah ]
noun
- (in Spain and Spanish America) a cloak or wrap.
- a type of blanket or cloth used on a horse or mule.
- Military. a movable shelter formerly used to protect besiegers, as when attacking a fortress.
- Also called man·ta ray [man, -t, uh, rey], Ichthyology. any of several tropical rays of the small family Mobulidae, especially of the genus Manta, measuring from 2 to 24 feet (0.6 to 7.3 meters) across, including the pectoral fins.
Manta
2[ mahn-tah, -tuh ]
noun
- a seaport in W Ecuador, on Manta Bay.
manta
/ ˈmæntə; ˈmanta /
noun
- Also calledmanta raydevilfishdevil ray any large ray (fish) of the family Mobulidae, having very wide winglike pectoral fins and feeding on plankton
- a rough cotton cloth made in Spain and Spanish America
- a piece of this used as a blanket or shawl
- another word for mantelet
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From the outside, it looks a lot like an airborne version of a manta ray.
Thirty million years before manta rays began gracefully gliding through ocean waters, a shark with fantastically elongated fins gave such underwater flight a go, researchers report in the March 19 Science.
Halfway through the game, I was fighting an enormous manta ray sort of thing while on my way to Hell.
For everyone else, the recently unveiled Manta Underwater Room in Zanzibar sounds like a dream come true.
When both sides have been heard, the old men put their heads together under a cloak or manta, and agree upon their judgment.
Then he pointed to the beautifully worked manta, “Did she squander wealth of hers on that?”
Miss Dolores had consented to wear a manta de Manila or soft shawl wound gracefully around her, and in her hair a red clavel.
It is not likely, however, that the manta devours anything larger than the pearl-oyster itself.
He disguised himself as an antelope, by means of a cloak of cotton cloth (manta) painted to resemble the colouring of the animal.
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