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Definition of Devilfishes
1. devilfish [n] - See also: devilfish
Lexicographical Neighbors of Devilfishes
Literary usage of Devilfishes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Tlingit Myths and Texts by John Reed Swanton (1909)
"After some time had passed, her parents saw two small devilfishes on the steps
of the chief's house early in the morning, and the people said to the chief, ..."
2. Half Hours with the Lower Animals: Protozoans, Sponges, Corals, Shells by Charles Frederick Holder (1905)
"devilfishes have been discovered in various seas, which weighed several hundred
pounds, and whose length ranged from fifty to seventy or more feet. ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1922)
"The smaller members of the same class (Decapoda) — the squids — living in the
shallow water of the whole world are commonly known as devilfishes because of ..."
4. College zoology by Robert William Hegner (1918)
"devilfishes have been accused of serious attacks on man, but are probably not so
bad as generally supposed. •j. MOLLUSCA IN GENERAL Morphology. ..."
5. Principles of Animal Biology by Aaron Franklin Shull, George Roger Larue, Alexander Grant Ruthven (1920)
"A genus of hydroids, or colonial Hydra-like animals of the phylum Coelenterata.
Octopus (ok' to pus). A genus of devilfishes (mollusks) having eight arms. ..."
6. Resources of the Pacific Slope: A Statistical and Descriptive Summary of the by John Ross Browne (1869)
"... Some of the strange Beasts and Fishes of the Peninsula Waters—Mermaids and
devilfishes—Great Stores of Whales and Seals— North-Pacific Whale-fishery in ..."
7. Library of Natural History by Richard Lydekker (1901)
"... title of devilfishes, the eagle rays include the largest representatives of
their tribe, and are characterized by the extreme width of the disc, ..."
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