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Squidlike mollusk
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cuttlefish
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Word definitions for cuttlefish in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English cudele "the cuttlefish;" first element perhaps related to Middle Low German küdel "container, pocket;" Old Norse koddi "cushion, testicle;" and Old English codd (see cod ).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Any of various squidlike cephalopod marine mollusks of the genus (taxlink Sepia genus noshow=1) that have ten arms and a calcareous internal shell and eject a dark inky fluid when in danger.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Floating in the water it is suddenly more noticeable than the cuttlefish itself. ▪ For example, the cuttlefish , when attacked, releases a large blob of ink into the water. ▪ In the Far East the stomach of one whale was found ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cuttle \Cut"tle\ (k[u^]t"t'l), Cuttlefish \Cut"tle*fish`\ (-f[i^]sh`), n. [OE. codule, AS. cudele; akin to G. kuttelfish; cf. G. k["o]tel, D. keutel, dirt from the guts, G. kuttel bowels, entrails. AS. cwi[thorn] womb, Goth. qi[thorn]us belly, womb.] ...
Usage examples of cuttlefish.
In consequence of this dream he went to the province of Hizen, and landed on the sea-shore at Hirato, where, in the midst of a blaze of light, the image which he had carved appeared to him twice, riding on the back of a cuttlefish.
Barrows piled high with crocks of olives, bunches of dried fish, boxes of filberts, trays of fried cuttlefish, mounds of cheeses .
Soon the hot chickens, cuttlefish and sausages would overlay this smell.
In the sea, the ammonites all died out, as did the other shelled forms like belemnites, unrolled ammonites, but the nautilus came through, as did the cuttlefish, squids, and octopuses.
After one trip, he returned with a grainy home video that he'd shot out of the window of a deepwater submersible—the first footage ever shot of a bizarre chemotropic cuttlefish that nobody even knew existed.
In 1861, to the north-east of Teneriffe, very nearly in the same latitude we are in now, the crew of the despatch-boat Alector perceived a monstrous cuttlefish swimming in the waters.
But above that height lay long black clouds, their bellies like dying coals, solid and compact in form, or like those cuttlefish bones seen in certain paintings or drawings, which if you look at them sideways freeze into the shape of skulls.
It served as nest and food for myriads of crustacea and molluscs, crabs, and cuttlefish.
He came to the Lucky Hope Shop, a small place but packed with merchandise: jars of twisted ginseng root, packs of dried cuttlefish, Hello Kitty toys and candies for children, noodles and spices, dusty bags of rice, bins of melon seeds, star noodles, tea for the liver and kidney, dried croaker, oyster sauce, lotus, jelly and gums, frozen tea buns and packs of tripe.
One cannot deny that poulps and cuttlefish exist of a large species, inferior, however, to the cetaceans.