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Definition of Cuttlefish
1. Noun. Ten-armed oval-bodied cephalopod with narrow fins as long as the body and a large calcareous internal shell.
Definition of Cuttlefish
1. Noun. Any of various squidlike cephalopod marine mollusks of the genus ''Sepia'' that have ten arms and a calcareous internal shell and eject a dark inky fluid when in danger. ¹
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Definition of Cuttlefish
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Cuttlefish
Literary usage of Cuttlefish
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1893)
"the aid of an attempt at a skeleton—the so-called cuttlefish bone. But this has
no joint in it, and even the octopus does not amount to much. ..."
2. Nature Stories for Young Readers: Animal Life by Florence Bass (1895)
"A cuttlefish. A big fish was swimming about in the sea in search of food. ...
So he swam after Mi-. cuttlefish as fast as he could. ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americanaedited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1903)
"cuttlefish, a common name for the Cephalopods, but originally applied to a member
of the genus Sepia. In the United States it is restricted to the octopods ..."
4. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1869)
"... some very slender bones of a cuttlefish which have the inner surface elevated
into a central ridge as in S. ..."
5. The Theological and Literary Journal (1853)
"On shaking the great entangled roots, a pile of small fish, shells, cuttlefish,
crabs of all orders, sea eggs, star fish, ..."
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