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noun mɒˈreɪˈmɒreɪ A mainly nocturnal eel-like predatory fish of warm seas, that typically hides in crevices with just the head protruding. Family Muraenidae: several genera and numerous species, including Muraena helena of the East Atlantic and Mediterranean Example sentencesExamples - There are many eels, particularly on the more broken wreck, and morays and congers live in holes almost next door to each other.
- Below the wall was a flat plain where we saw kingfish, a large moray eel and a shoal of tuna.
- Divers with torches may be fortunate enough to cast their lights onto morays under rocky overhangs.
- They seek shelter at night in crevices hiding from predators such as moray eel and various sharks.
- A night dive on the house reef revealed spiny lobsters and red crabs, morays, scorpionfish and lionfish.
- This was typical Red Sea diving, rich with corals and sponges and teeming with fish, one coral head housing a couple of morays that had been there for more than 11 years.
- All the familiar reef fish are there plus morays, sting rays, you name it.
- Scientists have observed a dolphin trying to get a reluctant moray eel to come out of its crevice by poking it with the spiny body of a dead scorpionfish.
- No sea cows or bovines here, but we spotted puffer fish and a giant moray and plenty of groupers.
- The morays are fed regularly and come right into the open.
- Little marine life has been attracted to the wreck, apart from the odd moray eel and scorpionfish and a shoal of cardinalfish buzzing around the cockpit.
- Most morays are thought to be nocturnal but some are known to hunt during the day.
- The rocky reefs and the small caverns formed within them are home to groupers, moray and conger eels, scorpionfish, many octopuses and the occasional spiny lobster.
- Parrotfish, morays and groupers swim in these seas, and divers can swim alongside.
- Gullies in the reefs were home to morays, lobster and the occasional crab.
- Other tanks in the exhibition will house a variety of eels, from razor-toother morays to a colony of distinctive garden eels, which anchor themselves in burrows with the tops of their tails and stand vertically like strands of seaweed.
Origin Early 17th century: from Portuguese moréia, via Latin from Greek muraina. proper nounˈmʌri A council area and former county of northern Scotland, bordered on the north by the Moray Firth; administrative centre, Elgin.
Definition of moray in US English: moray(also moray eel) noun A mainly nocturnal eel-like predatory fish of warm seas, that typically hides in crevices with just the head protruding. Family Muraenidae: several genera and numerous species, including the spotted moray (Gymnothorax moringa) of the Gulf of Mexico and the southeastern US Atlantic coast, and Muraena helena of the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean Example sentencesExamples - Scientists have observed a dolphin trying to get a reluctant moray eel to come out of its crevice by poking it with the spiny body of a dead scorpionfish.
- Below the wall was a flat plain where we saw kingfish, a large moray eel and a shoal of tuna.
- The rocky reefs and the small caverns formed within them are home to groupers, moray and conger eels, scorpionfish, many octopuses and the occasional spiny lobster.
- Other tanks in the exhibition will house a variety of eels, from razor-toother morays to a colony of distinctive garden eels, which anchor themselves in burrows with the tops of their tails and stand vertically like strands of seaweed.
- All the familiar reef fish are there plus morays, sting rays, you name it.
- Parrotfish, morays and groupers swim in these seas, and divers can swim alongside.
- Little marine life has been attracted to the wreck, apart from the odd moray eel and scorpionfish and a shoal of cardinalfish buzzing around the cockpit.
- A night dive on the house reef revealed spiny lobsters and red crabs, morays, scorpionfish and lionfish.
- The morays are fed regularly and come right into the open.
- This was typical Red Sea diving, rich with corals and sponges and teeming with fish, one coral head housing a couple of morays that had been there for more than 11 years.
- Gullies in the reefs were home to morays, lobster and the occasional crab.
- No sea cows or bovines here, but we spotted puffer fish and a giant moray and plenty of groupers.
- Divers with torches may be fortunate enough to cast their lights onto morays under rocky overhangs.
- There are many eels, particularly on the more broken wreck, and morays and congers live in holes almost next door to each other.
- Most morays are thought to be nocturnal but some are known to hunt during the day.
- They seek shelter at night in crevices hiding from predators such as moray eel and various sharks.
Origin Early 17th century: from Portuguese moréia, via Latin from Greek muraina. |