manta

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

The manta ray. See also cephaloptera and sea devil.

manta ray.

a blanket that is used as a cloak or shawl