MORAY

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Family of brightly colored voracious eels of warm coastal waters; generally nonaggressive to humans but larger species are dangerous if provoked

Synonyms:

moray; moray eel

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("moray" is a kind of...):

eel (voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having a continuous vertical fin but no ventral fins)

Holonyms ("moray" is a member of...):

family Muraenidae; Muraenidae (marine eels)

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