stingray

English

Ocellate river stingray (Potamotrygon motoro)

Etymology

sting +‎ ray

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈstɪŋˌɹeɪ/

Noun

stingray (plural stingrays)

Any of various large, venomous rays, of the orders Rajiformes and Myliobatiformes, having a barbed, whiplike tail.
Synonym: stingaree
(US law enforcement) A device that simulates a cell tower, used to intercept cell phone communications.
Synonym: IMSI catcher
- 2014, Catherine Nolan, Ashley M. Wilson, JD, The Audacity to Spy: How Government, Business, and Hackers Rob Us of Privacy, Technics Publications, →ISBN, page 74:
  The device mimics a cell phone tower and gets the phone to connect to it. […] Once a signal is found, the stingray measures its strength and can provide a general location on the map.

Derived terms

whiptail stingray

Translations

venomous ray of the orders Rajiformes and Myliobatiformes

Arabic: سَمَكَة رَاي لَاسِع f (samakat rāy lāsiʕ), سْتِينْغْرَي m (stīnḡray)
Breton: dasyatis
Catalan: dasyatis
Chinese:
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Hakka: please add this translation if you can

Hokkien: please add this translation if you can

Mandarin: 魟魚／𫚉鱼 (zh) (hóngyú), 黃貂魚／黄貂鱼 (zh) (huángdiāoyú)
Czech: rejnok (cs)
Danish: pilrokke
Dutch: pijlstaartrog (nl) m
Esperanto: rajo
Estonian: astelrai
Faroese: stingskøta f
Finnish: suurrausku, keihäsrauskut
French: raie à aiguillon (fr) f, pastenague (fr) f
Galician: estinga f, raia estriga f, uxa f
Georgian: სკაროსი (sḳarosi)
German: Stachelrochen m
Greek:
Ancient: νάρκη f (nárkē)
Hungarian: tüskésrájafélék, mérges rája
Icelandic: stingskötur f
Indonesian: ikan pari (id)
Iranun: pagi
Irish: roc ga nimhe m
Italian: razza (it) f, pastinaca (it) f
Japanese: 赤鱝, 赤鱏 (アカエイ, akaei)
Korean: 가오리 (ko) (gaori)
Lao: please add this translation if you can
Latin: trȳgōn m, žutuga f
Malay: ikan pari
Maori: whai
Norman: têgrêsse f, raie à didget f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: piggrokke (no) m or f
Portuguese: arraia/raia venenosa f
Pukapukan: wai
Russian: хвостоко́л (ru) m (xvostokól), морско́й кот (ru) m (morskój kot) , скат (ru) m (skat)
Serbo-Croatian:
Latin: žutulja (sh) f
Spanish: pastinaca (es) f
Swedish: spjutrockor
Tagalog: page (tl)
Tamil: please add this translation if you can
Thai: ปลากระเบนธง (bplaa grà bayn tong)
Turkish: vatoz (tr)
Vietnamese: cá đuối ó

Anagrams

straying

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