moray
noun
any of numerous chiefly tropical eels of the family Muraenidae, having porelike gill openings and no pectoral fins.
morays
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pluralof moray.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The researchers used baited traps to lure the morays to the surface of inland caves that connect to the ocean on Australia’s Christmas Island and the Philippines’s Panglao Island.
From Science Magazine ● May 18, 2023
We hope you can still manage a smile, even as our societal morays crumble.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 28, 2022
That, to me, is trying to impose contemporary morays onto history.
From Slate ● Apr. 21, 2020
More impressively, researchers in the Red Sea in 2002 and 2004 watched groupers and morays hunting cooperatively on numerous occasions.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 30, 2018
At that moment another man came up, evidently in something of a hurry, and he pressed eagerly forward to look at the morays.
From Two Boys of the Battleship or For the Honor of Uncle Sam by Frank V. Webster
