sea devil
See also: seadevil
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]sea devil (plural sea devils)
- Any very large ray, especially any species of the genus Mobula (syns. Manta, Cephaloptera).
- Any large cephalopod.
- An angler fish of species Lophius piscatorius
- Fishes of family Ceratiidae.
Derived terms
[edit]- black sea devils (Melanocetidae spp.)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “sea devil”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)