guitarfish en · NOUN
Pronunciation
Etymology
From guitar + fish, from its body shape.
Meanings
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Any of the family Rhinobatidae of rays with elongated bodies, flattened heads and trunks, and small, ray-like wings.
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:
- Any of the family Glaucostegidae of rays, formally classified under the family Rhinobatidae.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| guitarfish | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| guitarfishes | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
Chola guitarfish (Related terms) · Brazilian guitarfish (Related terms) · clubnose guitarfish (Related terms) · Salalah guitarfish (Related terms) · Madagascar guitarfish (Related terms) · spineback guitarfish (Related terms) · Gorgona guitarfish (Related terms) · spiny guitarfish (Related terms) · Zanzibar guitarfish (Related terms) · bluntnose guitarfish (Related terms) · smalleyed guitarfish (Related terms) · bowmouth guitarfish (Related terms) · sharpnose guitarfish (Related terms) · Pacific guitarfish (Related terms) · yellow guitarfish (Related terms) · common guitarfish (Related terms) · stripenose guitarfish (Related terms) · blackchin guitarfish (Related terms) · thornback guitarfish (Related terms) · Halavi's guitarfish (Related terms) · banded guitarfish (Related terms) · grayspotted guitarfish (Related terms) · spotted guitarfish (Related terms) · witch guitarfish (Related terms) · widenose guitarfish (Related terms) · white-spotted guitarfish (Related terms) · whitesnout guitarfish (Related terms) · giant guitarfish (Related terms) · Annandale's guitarfish (Related terms) · Taiwan guitarfish (Related terms) · speckled guitarfish (Related terms) · slender guitarfish (Related terms) · southern banded guitarfish (Related terms) · shovelnose guitarfish (Related terms) · Atlantic guitarfish (Related terms) · smoothback guitarfish (Related terms) · lesser guitarfish (Related terms)
Translations (11)
pt cação-viola (guitarfish) · pt viola (guitarfish) · cmn 犁头鳐科 (guitarfish) · pt arraia-viola (guitarfish) · nv tsiikʼánii (guitarfish) · cmn 琴犁头鳐 (guitarfish) · pt raia-viola (guitarfish) · ko 가래상어과 (guitarfish) · ja 坂田鮫 (guitarfish) · ja サカタザメ (guitarfish) · th วงศ์ปลาโรนัน (guitarfish)