单词 | manta |
释义 | man·ta (măntə) n. 1. A rough-textured cotton fabric or blanket made and used in Spanish America and the southwest United States. 2. A very large ray (Manta birostris) inhabiting tropical and subtropical seas, having a whiplike tail and two hornlike fins that project forward from the head, and feeding on plankton. Also called devil ray, manta ray. [Spanish, blanket, manta (from its blanketlike shape), alteration of manto, cloak, perhaps from Latin mantellum, mantēlum.] |
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