torpedo skate

noun

An electric ray of the genus Torpedo.

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Meanings

nountorpedo skate (plural torpedo skates)

plural torpedo skates

  1. biologyAn electric ray of the genus Torpedo.
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    There must have been at least a hundred tanks of various sizes, from the large ones to hold Torpedo Skates and the sinister Guitar Fish, to smaller ones for the Horse-killer Eel, Mud Fish from the Pacific, and the monstrous West Indian Scorpion Fish, each of whose spines has a poison sac as powerful as a rattlesnake's venom.

    1954, Ian Fleming, “Midnight Among The Worms”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 157
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