Usually means: Female ray with thorny back.
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  1. thornback: Merriam-Webster
  2. thornback: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. thornback: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. thornback: Collins English Dictionary
  5. thornback: Wordnik
  6. thornback: Wiktionary
  7. thornback: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. thornback: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. thornback: Dictionary.com
  10. Thornback: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Thornback: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. thornback: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. Thornback: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. thornback: FreeDictionary.org
  15. thornback: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. thornback: Encyclopedia

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  1. thornback: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Definitions from Wiktionary (thornback)

noun:  Any animal with a thorny back, especially marine animals, such as:
noun:  The thornback guitarfish (Platyrhinoidis triseriata), a species of ray in the north-eastern Pacific Ocean.
noun:  The thornback ray or thornback skate (Raja clavata), a species of ray in the Atlantic Ocean.
noun:  The thornback skate (Dentiraja lemprieri), a fish endemic to Australia.
noun:  (archaic) A woman over a certain age (variously 26 or 30) who has never married, older than a spinster.

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