manta
(in Spain and Spanish America) a cloak or wrap.
a type of blanket or cloth used on a horse or mule.
Military. a movable shelter formerly used to protect besiegers, as when attacking a fortress.
Also called man·ta ray [man-tuh-rey], /ˈmæn tə ˌreɪ/, dev·il ray [dev-uhl rey]: /ˈdɛv əl ˌreɪ/: devilfish. Ichthyology. any of several tropical rays of the small family Mobulidae, especially of the genus Manta, measuring from 2 to 24 feet (0.6 to 7.3 meters) across, including the pectoral fins.
Origin of manta
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a seaport in W Ecuador, on Manta Bay.
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How to use manta in a sentence
From the outside, it looks a lot like an airborne version of a manta ray.
Drones as Big as 747s Will Fly Cargo Around the World With Low Emissions, Startup Says | Vanessa Bates Ramirez | February 11, 2022 | Singularity HubThirty million years before manta rays began gracefully gliding through ocean waters, a shark with fantastically elongated fins gave such underwater flight a go, researchers report in the March 19 Science.
An ancient shark’s weird fins helped it glide like a manta ray | Carolyn Gramling | March 18, 2021 | Science NewsHalfway through the game, I was fighting an enormous manta ray sort of thing while on my way to Hell.
Bayonetta Is Nintendo’s Graphic, Ass-Kicking Barbie | Alec Kubas-Meyer | October 24, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTFor everyone else, the recently unveiled manta Underwater Room in Zanzibar sounds like a dream come true.
When both sides have been heard, the old men put their heads together under a cloak or manta, and agree upon their judgment.
Spanish Life in Town and Country | L. Higgin and Eugne E. Street
Then he pointed to the beautifully worked manta, “Did she squander wealth of hers on that?”
The Treasure Trail | Marah Ellis RyanMiss Dolores had consented to wear a manta de Manila or soft shawl wound gracefully around her, and in her hair a red clavel.
The Four Corners Abroad | Amy Ella BlanchardIt is not likely, however, that the manta devours anything larger than the pearl-oyster itself.
A Guide to the Study of Fishes, Volume 1 (of 2) | David Starr JordanHe disguised himself as an antelope, by means of a cloak of cotton cloth (manta) painted to resemble the colouring of the animal.
Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) | Carl Lumholtz
British Dictionary definitions for manta
/ (ˈmæntə, Spanish ˈmanta) /
Also called: manta ray, devilfish, devil ray any large ray (fish) of the family Mobulidae, having very wide winglike pectoral fins and feeding on plankton
a rough cotton cloth made in Spain and Spanish America
a piece of this used as a blanket or shawl
another word for mantelet (def. 2)
Origin of manta
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