batoidei Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun fish with dorsoventrally flattened bodies; includes: rays; skates; guitarfishes; sawfishes
    order Batoidei; order Rajiformes; Rajiformes.

WordNet

Ba*toi"de*i noun plural
Etymology
NL., fr. Gr. a kind of ray + -oid.
Definitions
  1. (Zoöl.) The division of fishes which includes the rays and skates.

Webster 1913