How to pronounce ray

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What ray means

noun

Most people know ray in its everyday sense. Here's its other meaning.

A flat sea fish with wide fins like wings and a thin tail

In a sentence: At the aquarium, a ray glided over the sand, flapping its wide fins.

Where it comes from: It comes from the old French word raie, from Latin raia, and no one is sure where that came from. It is a different word from ray, the beam of light, which comes from the Latin word radius.

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