Definition of Calamaries

1. calamary [n] - See also: calamary

Lexicographical Neighbors of Calamaries

calades
caladium
caladiums
calaite
calaites
calaloo
calalu
calamanco
calamancoes
calamancos
calamander
calamanders
calamari
calamari ring
calamaries (current term)
calamaris
calamars
calamary
calamata
calamatas
calambac
calambour
calami
calamine
calamine lotion
calamined
calamines
calamining
calamint

Literary usage of Calamaries

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Nature's teachings: human invention anticipated by nature by John George Wood (1877)
"Proceedings of newly-hatched calamaries.—Larva of the Dragonfly.—Distribution of Weight.—The Snow-shoe, its Structure and Mode of using it. ..."

2. Zoology: Being a Systematic Account of the General Structure, Habits by William Benjamin Carpenter, William Sweetland Dallas (1867)
"S, commonly known as calamaries or Squids, are distinguished by their ... The SEPII- DM, or true Cuttle-Jish, are stouter in their form than the calamaries, ..."

3. The Student, and Intellectual Observer (1870)
"Of the other remains of calamaries in a fossil state, ... We have then one hundred and twenty-three species of calamaries, twenty-four of which occur in the ..."

4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... the horny pen of tfai calamaries, the calcareous "bone" of the ... which corresponds with the front portion of the " pen " ol the calamaries, ..."

5. Lectures on the comparative anatomy and physiology of the invertebrate animals by Richard Owen (1855)
"In the cuttle-fishes and calamaries the branchial septum is not developed. The respiratory tube or funnel is a complete muscular cylinder, formed by ¡in ..."

6. A Manual of the Mollusca: Or, A Rudimentary Treatise of Recent and Fossil Shells by Samuel Peckworth Woodward (1851)
"The calamaries are good swimmers ; they also crawl, head-downwards, on their oral disk. The common species is used for bait, by fishermen, on the Cornish ..."

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