manta
noun
man·ta
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Definition of manta
1
: a square piece of cloth or blanket used in southwestern U.S. and Latin America usually as a cloak or shawl
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Examples of manta in a Sentence
a manta glided along the sea bottom
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Microplastics gathered by a manta trawl in the Sargasso Sea are placed on a map of the area. — Shailene Woodley, Time, "Shailene Woodley: How I'm Changing My Life to Help Save the Seas," 4 Sep. 2019 That muddied patch of manta cloth, the product of sudden flooding, might put you in the mind of the hazy color blocks of Mark Rothko. — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, "Painter Vivian Suter emerges from decades of self-exile with bright, blissful works at the ICA," 29 Aug. 2019 Reef mantas have patterns of unique belly spots that stay the same throughout their lives. — Jake Buehler, National Geographic, "Manta rays form close friendships, shattering misconceptions," 27 Aug. 2019 Off the side of the Esperanza, the manta trawl lazily gobbles up water samples from the ocean's surface that are filtered through its long mesh tail. — Arwa Damon, CNN, "Microplastics discovered in 'extreme' concentrations in the North Atlantic," 19 Aug. 2019 While population numbers for giant manta rays are hard to come by, a related species, the reef manta, which until a decade ago was seen as the same species, has decreased by 90 percent in the last decade. — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, "Teeming Manta Ray Nursery Discovered in the Gulf of Mexico," 19 June 2018 Stewart, a graduate student at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography who has studied mantas around the world, had only seen one or two juveniles in his studies. — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, "Teeming Manta Ray Nursery Discovered in the Gulf of Mexico," 19 June 2018 Now, researchers at the National University of Singapore have created a robot that mimics the manta. — Denise Chow /, NBC News, "This robotic manta ray may speed underwater search and rescue," 8 Dec. 2017 Paradoxically, that vulnerability may also bring benefits, by intensifying pressure on regional and local governments to conserve mantas on their own. — National Geographic, "Manta Rays Prefer Staycations Over Long Migrations," 20 June 2016These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'manta.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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