Definitions for Manta

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Manta man·ta

Spelling: [man-tuh; Spanish mahn-tah]

IPA: /ˈmæn tə; Spanish ˈmɑn tɑ/

Manta is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 50 anagrams from letters in Manta (aamnt).

Definitions for Manta

noun

1. (in Spain and Spanish America) a cloak or wrap.
2. the type of blanket or cloth used on a horse or mule.
3. Military. a movable shelter formerly used to protect besiegers, as when attacking a fortress.
4. Ichthyology.. Also called manta ray, devil ray, devilfish. any of several tropical rays of the small family Mobulidae, especially of the genus Manta, measuring from 2 to 24 feet (0.6 to 7.3 meters) across, including the pectoral fins.
5. a seaport in W Ecuador, on Manta Bay.

Origin of Manta

1690-1700; Spanish Provençal: blanket. See mantle

Examples for Manta

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

The only booty made by landing at manta, was the taking two old women prisoners.

Tula had recovered her belt, and fastened it under the manta she wore.

Her eye became fixed upon one that was covered with a manta.

He looked at the manta, now, like that of Avila, a mocking failure.

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 the first time Tula has ruled an outfit, and it is not the manta!

Assume the superior air of a real plainsman and speak of it as a "manta."

Then her hand went under her manta and drew out the curved knife.

The manta, or sea-devil, of tropical America is manta birostris.