moray
muh ray
- n family of brightly colored voracious eels of warm coastal waters; generally nonaggressive to humans but larger species are dangerous if provoked
- There, armed with a spear, he harpoons a mullet, merou, moray, ray, octopus, none of which is so suspicious of man underwater as of man out.
- That moray eel, which figures in the book's penultimate scene, is unlikely to start a craze or appear on T shirts.
- Next down are the species that compose the ecosystems: swallowtail butterflies, moray eels, people.