[L. trȳgōn (Pliny), a. Gr. τρῡγών a dove, also the fish.] A fish with a sharp spine in its tail, a sting-ray.
[1706. Phillips (ed. Kersey), Trygon, the Turtle-Dove.]
1749. G. West, trans. Odes of Pindar (1753), I. 258. And by my Dart the Lord of Ithaca, Not by the pois’nous Trygon’s Bone expir’d.
1774. Goldsm., Nat. Hist., VI. 260. Circe armed her son with a spear headed with the spine of the trygon.
