Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of numerous often brightly colored marine eels of the family Muraenidae, having a large mouth with sharp teeth.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of many apodal eellike fishes of the family Murænidæ, and especially of the genus Muræna, of which there are several subdivisions, as Sidera. The spotted moray is M. (Sidera) moringa, of the tropical Atlantic, everywhere with innumerable small dark spots in a fine network of the whitish ground-color. Several other morays occur on the southern Atlantic coast of the United States, and M. mordax is a Californian moray attaining a length of 5 feet.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A muræna.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of the large
cosmopolitan carnivorous eels of the family Muraenidae.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun family of brightly colored voracious eels of warm coastal waters; generally nonaggressive to humans but larger species are dangerous if provoked
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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In the shadows lurk moray eels and spiny lobsters, which come into their own during night dives as they make their way into the open in search of smaller prey.
Discover an extraordinary underwater world in the Cayman Islands 2011
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In the shadows lurk moray eels and spiny lobsters, which come into their own during night dives as they make their way into the open in search of smaller prey.
Discover an extraordinary underwater world in the Cayman Islands 2011
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For tales of terror — try mako, moray, and man o' war
A Bestiary of Sorts, in Miniature Sam Rasnake 2011
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Not even the ugly, saw-tooth smile of a moray eel.
Brenda Peterson: Gulf Oil Spill Meets Dead Zone: What Lies Beneath 2010
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We followed the moray as it swam out over the edge.
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That attracts sharks and other predators, like moray eels, pictured.
Under the Sea 2010
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In the bay in Amoopi, my son finally managed to direct my attention to what he'd seen: a dark green, black-speckled Mediterranean moray eel coiled near the edge of a vast rocky plateau barely a meter beneath us.
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But this is better: There are no sea urchins, moray eels, or crabs at the bottom.
Learning to Die in Miami Carlos Eire 2010
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However, I'd like to suggest another way of looking at the findings below, which range from the moray eel's remarkable second jaw to the unexpected plumage of dinosaurs.
Wired Top Stories 2009
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Much of Obama's success as president relies on whether his significant spending plan lifts us out of the economic moray we find ourselves in.
beautifulpyre commented on the word moray
That's a moray!
April 30, 2009