manta
noun
- ☆
- coarse cotton cloth used for cheap shawls, capes, etc. in Spanish America
- a shawl, cape, etc. made of this
- ☆ a horse blanket or horse cloth
- any of a family (Mobulidae, order Myliobatiformes) of usually giant rays with winglike pectoral fins, living near the surface of warm seas while feeding on plankton or small fish; devilfish
See manta in American Heritage Dictionary 4
(mănˈtə)
noun- A rough-textured cotton fabric or blanket made and used in Spanish America and the southwest United States.
- Any of several rays of the family Mobulidae, inhabiting tropical and subtropical seas and having a large flattened body, winglike pectoral fins, a whiplike tail, and two hornlike fins that project forward from the head. Also called devilfish, manta ray, sea devil.
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