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manta

noun as in shawl

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From the outside, it looks a lot like an airborne version of a manta ray.

Thirty million years before manta rays began gracefully gliding through ocean waters, a shark with fantastically elongated fins gave such underwater flight a go, researchers report in the March 19 Science.

Halfway through the game, I was fighting an enormous manta ray sort of thing while on my way to Hell.

For everyone else, the recently unveiled Manta Underwater Room in Zanzibar sounds like a dream come true.

When both sides have been heard, the old men put their heads together under a cloak or manta, and agree upon their judgment.

Then he pointed to the beautifully worked manta, “Did she squander wealth of hers on that?”

Miss Dolores had consented to wear a manta de Manila or soft shawl wound gracefully around her, and in her hair a red clavel.

It is not likely, however, that the manta devours anything larger than the pearl-oyster itself.

He disguised himself as an antelope, by means of a cloak of cotton cloth (manta) painted to resemble the colouring of the animal.

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On this page you'll find 10 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to manta, such as: cloth, scarf, stole, cape, fichu, and mantle.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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