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Cuttlefish   /kˈətəlfˌɪʃ/   Listen
Cuttlefish

noun
1.
Ten-armed oval-bodied cephalopod with narrow fins as long as the body and a large calcareous internal shell.  Synonym: cuttle.






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"Cuttlefish" Quotes from Famous Books



... called the stag in Mesopotamia. The twins, instead of being Castor and Pollux, may equally well be a man and a woman or two generals. To landsmen not familiar with creatures of the deep, the crab and the cuttlefish would not seem greatly different. The lion is unknown in America, but the creature which most nearly takes his place is the puma or ocelot. So it goes with all the signs of the zodiac. There are little differences between the Old World and ...
— The Red Man's Continent - A Chronicle of Aboriginal America, Volume 1 In The - Chronicles Of America Series • Ellsworth Huntington



Words linked to "Cuttlefish" :   decapod, sepia, genus Sepia



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