ray vs eagle ray

eagle ray vs ray

ray and eagle ray both are nouns.

ray is a verb but eagle ray is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
ray	Yes	No	Yes	No
eagle ray	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, eagle ray is a hyponym of ray; that is, eagle ray is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than ray:

ray: cartilaginous fishes having horizontally flattened bodies and enlarged winglike pectoral fins with gills on the underside; most swim by moving the pectoral fins
eagle ray: powerful free-swimming tropical ray noted for `soaring' by flapping winglike fins; usually harmless but has venomous tissue near base of the tail as in stingrays

Other hyponyms of ray include crampfish, electric ray, numbfish, torpedo, sawfish, guitarfish, stingray, devilfish, manta, manta ray, skate.

ray (noun)	eagle ray (noun)
cartilaginous fishes having horizontally flattened bodies and enlarged winglike pectoral fins with gills on the underside; most swim by moving the pectoral fins	powerful free-swimming tropical ray noted for `soaring' by flapping winglike fins; usually harmless but has venomous tissue near base of the tail as in stingrays
any of the stiff bony spines in the fin of a fish
the syllable naming the second (supertonic) note of any major scale in solmization
a column of light (as from a beacon)
a group of nearly parallel lines of electromagnetic radiation
a branch of an umbel or an umbelliform inflorescence
(mathematics) a straight line extending from a point

ray (verb)	eagle ray (verb)
expose to radiation
extend or spread outward from a center or focus or inward towards a center
emit as rays

Difference between ray and eagle ray

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