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Sea creature with tentacles
Answer for the clue "Sea creature with tentacles ", 5 letters:
squid
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Word definitions for squid in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE giant ▪ Another favoured prey item is the giant squid , which can reach lengths of 12m. ▪ It is a giant squid , its long tentacles twisting about like huge snakes. ▪ In 1887, another giant squid was found, this ...
Usage examples of squid.
Street-vendors appear from under the scaffold to offer mugs of water and aniseed, pushing and jostling past sellers of bread and offal, of boiled squid and cactus fruit.
Stanager Rose and her crew, even as it applied to squid of all sizes and species, but the practical effects of the process were abundantly evident in their astoundingly swift progress across the water.
Torque forces that would easily separate material made of mere chemical bonds cannot overcome the strong force manifested by the buckyball SQUIDs, and the Met holds together.
They were halfway through their entree, Lo Manto savoring a mixed grill of squid, shrimp, scallops, eel, clams, and mussels and a large tomato and red onion salad while Felipe devoured a steak pizza iola garlic mashed potatoes, and a side of marinated eggplant.
McGraw was supposed to tell the Squid that Lo Manto was a dealer from Italy looking to dump a high-six-figure load of pure heroin on the New York streets.
Lo Manto figured that McGraw passed only some of that information on to the Squid.
The Squid turned away from Lo Manto and gave a quick glance to the coffee table, his two guns resting side by side.
The Squid looked past Lo Manto, down the narrow hallway corridor to his right, at the slow-moving shadow of Joey Tugs McGraw gently easing his way into the living room.
Lo Manto looked away from the Squid and followed the shadow that was moving to his left.
Lo Manto pulled away from the Squid, shoved the hands down, and took a step back.
I was thinking perhaps some Ashtan steak, sauteed Riparian squid with klavva nut filling, orange-glazed mentha root with Etarian coffee, and something as decadent as a Sassan God for dessert might be in order.
Shizuka exclaimed when she saw the delicacies of the season, raw sea bream and squid, broiled eel with green perilla and horseradish, pickled cucumbers and salted lotus root, rare black mushrooms and burdock, laid out on the lacquer trays.
The photophores are between the skin and the mantle muscle in terrestrial squid.
Everything is going into the growth of the slick, and as it displaces the normal phytoplankton population, it will remove the base of the ecological pyramid through which fixed carbon flows from the microscopic primary producers to zooplankton, fish, squid, whales, and, ultimately, man.
Well, actually no, but the effect was remarkably similar, one of the cephalopod confections caught in her curls, staring at the driver with the same wide-eyed expression, like Father Squid being subjected to an unexpected proctology exam.