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torpedo skate

torpedo skate noun: an electric ray of the genus Torpedo.

Noun

torpedo skate (plural torpedo skates)

  1. An electric ray of the genus Torpedo.
    • 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...1954, Ian Fleming, “Midnight Among The Worms”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 157

Forms of torpedo skate

pluraltorpedo skates

Questions about torpedo skate

What does torpedo skate mean?
Torpedo skate means an electric ray of the genus Torpedo.
What part of speech is torpedo skate?
Torpedo skate is a noun.
What is the plural of torpedo skate?
The plural of torpedo skate is torpedo skates.

Words near torpedo skate in the dictionary

  1. torpedo punts
  2. torpedo ram
  3. torpedo rams
  4. torpedo roll
  5. torpedo rolls
  6. torpedo skate
  7. torpedo skates
  8. torpedo stern
  9. torpedo sterns
  10. torpedo tube
  11. torpedo tubes

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