Manta, Ecuador

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

2. Any of several rays of the family Mobulidae, inhabiting tropical and subtropical seas and having a large flattened body, winglike pectoral fins, a whiplike tail, and two hornlike fins that project forward from the head. Also called devilfish, manta ray, sea devil.

[Spanish, blanket, manta (from its blanketlike shape), alteration of manto, cloak, perhaps from Latin mantellum, mantlum.]

manta [ˈmæntə (Spanish) ˈmanta]

1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) Also called manta ray devilfish devil ray any large ray (fish) of the family Mobulidae, having very wide winglike pectoral fins and feeding on plankton

2. (Clothing, Personal Arts & Crafts / Textiles) a rough cotton cloth made in Spain and Spanish America

3. (Clothing & Fashion) a piece of this used as a blanket or shawl

4. (Military / Arms & Armour (excluding Firearms)) another word for mantelet [2]

[Spanish: cloak, from Vulgar Latin; see mantle. The manta ray is so called because it is caught in a trap resembling a blanket]

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Noun	1.	manta - a blanket that is used as a cloak or shawl blanket, cover - bedding that keeps a person warm in bed; "he pulled the covers over his head and went to sleep"
	2.	manta - extremely large pelagic tropical ray that feeds on plankton and small fishes; usually harmless but its size make it dangerous if harpooned manta ray, devilfish ray - cartilaginous fishes having horizontally flattened bodies and enlarged winglike pectoral fins with gills on the underside; most swim by moving the pectoral fins family Mobulidae, Mobulidae - large rays lacking venomous spines: mantas Atlantic manta, Manta birostris - largest manta (to 22 feet across wings); found worldwide but common in Gulf of Mexico and along southern coasts of United States; primarily oceanic devil ray, Mobula hypostoma - small manta (to 4 feet) that travels in schools

Translations

manta (ray)

n → Teufelsrochen m, → Manta m

manta [ˈmæntə] n (also manta ray) → manta

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Atlantic manta
bedcovers
blanket
Cephaloptera
devil ray
devilfish
electric blanket
family Mobulidae
genus Manta
genus Mobula
Manta birostris
manta ray
mantilla
Mobula
Mobula hypostoma
Mobulidae
Naucrates ductor
pilot fish
pilotfish

The move comes as relief for Washington's efforts in the region, after it closed its only remaining base in South America in September, in the port city of Manta, Ecuador, from where it had launched aerial surveillance operations targeting cocaine shipments.

Colombia grants US access to military bases by AFP / AFP American Edition

Colombia grants US access to military bases by AFP / AFP Global Edition

military base in Manta, Ecuador, set up with up to 500 US soldiers to run counter-drug flights when Panama threw out military bases in 1999, has become a controversial presence that a majority of Ecuadoreans want closed.

Yankees head home by Lindsay-Poland, John / Foreign Policy in Focus

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