family of brightly colored voracious eels of warm coastal waters; generally nonaggressive to humans but larger species are dangerous if provoked
"The diver carefully avoided disturbing the vibrant moray eel coiled in the coral reef, knowing that while most were harmless, a startled bite from a large specimen could be deadly."
Any of the large cosmopolitan carnivorous eels of the family Muraenidae.
"The diver held her breath to avoid startling the moray that was hiding in the coral reef crevice."
A historical county in northern Scotland, absorbed into Grampian Region in 1975.
"The museum's local history exhibition focused on artifacts from Moray before the administrative reorganization merged it into the Grampian Region."