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Definition of Cuttlebone
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cuttlebone
Literary usage of Cuttlebone
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The World Book: Organized Knowledge in Story and Picture edited by Michael Vincent O'Shea, Ellsworth D. Foster, George Herbert Locke (1918)
"CUTTLEFISH, kut “I fish, a shellfish whose internal shell is the broad, spongy,
chalky cuttlebone, used by cage birds to sharpen their beaks, ..."
2. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria by Royal Society of Victoria (Melbourne, Vic.) (1908)
"A\ist. Mus.. vol. vii. Hab.—Heytesbury Coast (GB Pritchard). Obs.—The form of
this cuttlebone is narrow. Size of type, " GO nun. long by 11 mm. broad at its ..."
3. Autobiography and Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley (1919)
"In fact, the squid has, instead of any such shell, a horny "pen," the cuttle-fish
has the so- called "cuttlebone," and the octopus has no shell, or, ..."
4. Handbook of Nature-study for Teachers and Parents, Based on the Cornell by Anna Botsford Comstock (1911)
"Why do we give the canary cuttlebone? Note how it takes off pieces of the bone.
Could it do this if its beak were not sharp? 8. ..."
5. Lectures on the Comparative Anatomy and Physiology of the Invertebrate by Richard Owen (1855)
"... lateral fins of this species extend from the apex to near the base of the mantle.
The nucleus, or terminal spine of the cuttlebone corresponds with the ..."
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