stingray

English

Ocellate river stingray (Potamotrygon motoro)

Etymology

sting +‎ ray

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstɪŋˌɹeɪ/

Noun

stingray (plural stingrays)

1. Any of various large, venomous rays, of the orders Rajiformes and Myliobatiformes, having a barbed, whiplike tail.

   Synonym: stingaree

2. (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:

  Cantonese: please add this translation if you can

  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

See also

• (cell phone): IMSI

Further reading

• stingray on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• straying