noun. A rough-textured cotton fabric or blanket made and used in Spanish America and the southwest United States.

noun. A very large ray (Manta birostris) inhabiting tropical and subtropical seas, having a whiplike tail and two hornlike fins that project forward from the head, and feeding on plankton.

noun. A wrap of black cloth, cashmere, or silk extensively worn by women on the west coast of South America, especially in the forenoons and to church and funerals. It is worn less now than formerly, when it was in general use on the streets.

noun. A coarse unbleached cotton fabric which forms the staple clothing of the common people of Mexico.

noun. In mining, a blanket or sack of ore; a placer in situ.

noun. The Spanish-American name of an enormous devil-fish or sea-devil, an eagleray of the family Ceratopteridæ

noun. [capitalized] [NL.] A genus of such rays. Manta birostris is a species of the warmer American waters. It is a synonym of Ceratoptera.

noun. The manta ray. See also cephaloptera and sea devil.

noun. manta ray.

noun. a blanket that is used as a cloak or shawl

noun. extremely large pelagic tropical ray that feeds on plankton and small fishes; usually harmless but its size make it dangerous if harpooned

"When they feast a friend they kill an ox, and set immediately a quarter of him raw upon the table (for their most elegant treat is raw beef newly killed) with pepper and salt; the gall of the ox serves them for oil and vinegar; some, to heighten the delicacy of the entertainment, add a kind of sauce, which they call manta, made of what they take out of the guts of the ox; this they set on the fire, with butter, salt, pepper, and onion."

blanket  cover  

Atalanta  Atlanta  Santa  

bomb-throwing  croprocessor  desesperada  gallina  ganancia  

cephaloptera  manta ray  sea devil