- eagle ray - powerful free-swimming tropical ray noted for `soaring' by flapping winglike fins; usually harmless but has venomous tissue near base of the tail as in stingrays
--1 is a kind of ray
--1 is a member of Myliobatidae, family Myliobatidae
--1 has particulars:spotted eagle ray, spotted ray, Aetobatus narinari; cownose ray, cow-nosed ray, Rhinoptera bonasus