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- translingual · calque ofAetobatus
- English todayeagle ray
A calque of translingual Aetobatus (literally “eagle-ray”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
eagle ray
Today it means: Any of a group of cartilaginous fishes in the family Myliobatidae, consisting mostly of large species living in the open ocean rather than on the sea bottom. Full definition →
translingual Aetobatus