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ray

Any of several orders (especially Ragiformes) of cartilaginous fishes with a flattened body, winglike pectoral fins, and a whiplike tail.

Species include the stingray, for example the Southern stingray Dasyatis americana, which has a serrated, poisonous spine on the tail, and the torpedo fish.

Ray

The supertonic note, pronounced ‘Ray’ and represented by the symbol r, in any key in tonic sol-fa notation, the system of musical notation without staves and notes and based on the old syllabic system of Do (Ut), Re, Mi, and so on.



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For a fish, they might take measurements such as the length of the head, diameter of the eye sockets, scale counts, or examine more complex characteristics such as fin rays and vertebrae, which can require x-rays, and genetic characters that require chemical analyses.
 
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