devilfish
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1. extremely large pelagic tropical ray that feeds on plankton and small fishes; usually harmless but its size make it dangerous if harpooned (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | ray, |
| definition | : | cartilaginous fishes having horizontally flattened bodies and enlarged winglike pectoral fins with gills on the underside; most swim by moving the pectoral fins (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | atlantic manta, manta birostris, |
| definition | : | largest manta (to 22 feet across wings); found worldwide but common in Gulf of Mexico and along southern coasts of United States; primarily oceanic (noun.animal) |
2. bottom-living cephalopod having a soft oval body with eight long tentacles (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | octopod, |
| definition | : | a cephalopod with eight arms but lacking an internal shell (noun.animal) |
| part holonym | : | octopus, |
| definition | : | tentacles of octopus prepared as food (noun.food) |
| member meronym | : | genus octopus, |
| definition | : | type genus of the family Octopodidae (noun.animal) |
3. medium-sized greyish-black whale of the northern Pacific (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | baleen whale, whalebone whale, |
| definition | : | whale with plates of whalebone along the upper jaw for filtering plankton from the water (noun.animal) |
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