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manta的音标和读音：
DJ音标发音： [ˈmæntə]
KK音标发音： [ˈmæntə]

manta的词性：
n.（名词）

1. A rough-textured cotton fabric or blanket made and used in Spanish America and the southwest United States.
方布：一种质地粗糙的织物或毯子，在讲西班牙语的美洲国家和美国西南部生产和使用

2. Any of several rays of the family Mobulidae, inhabiting tropical and subtropical seas and having a large flattened body, winglike pectoral fins, a whiplike tail, and two hornlike fins that project forward from the head.Also called In this sense, also called devilfish, manta ray, sea devil
蝠鲼：任一种蝠鲼科的鳐鱼，生活在热带或副热带海域，有大而扁平的身体和翼状的胸鳍，以及鞭状的尾，头的前部有两个角状的向前突出的鳍也作 在此意义上也可称作 devilfish， manta ray， sea devil

manta的词源：

3. Spanish [blanket, manta (from its blanketlike shape)]
西班牙语 [毯子，马毯（源于它毯子似的形状）]

4. alteration of manto [cloak]
manto的变化 [斗篷]

5. perhaps from Latin mantellum, mant?lum
可能源自 拉丁语 mantellum, mant?lum