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torpedo skates

torpedo skates is the plural of torpedo skate.

Meaning of torpedo skate

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

Questions about torpedo skates

What is torpedo skates the plural of?
Torpedo skates is the plural of torpedo skate.

Words near torpedo skates in the dictionary

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

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