moray (redirected from Morayshire)

mo·ray  (môr, m-r)

n.

Any of numerous chiefly tropical, brightly colored marine eels of the family Muraenidae that are ferocious fighters and commonly inhabit coral reefs.

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[Portuguese moréia, from Latin mrna, from Greek mraina, from mros, a kind of eel.]

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moray

Noun

a large marine eel marked with brilliant colours [Greek muraina]

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

moray - family of brightly colored voracious eels of warm coastal waters; generally nonaggressive to humans but larger species are dangerous if provoked moray eel eel - voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having a continuous vertical fin but no ventral fins family Muraenidae, Muraenidae - marine eels