Definitions

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  • proper noun a taxonomic genus of squid, within family Loliginidae

Etymologies

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Latin lōlīgō ("squid, cuttlefish")

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Examples

  • Loligo pealei squids have eight arms and two tentacles, all of which are coated with suction-cups, lined with fangs composed of chitin.

    Material World: October 2008 Tracy Staedter 2008

  • Loligo pealei squids have eight arms and two tentacles, all of which are coated with suction-cups, lined with fangs composed of chitin.

    Material World: Visualization Tracy Staedter 2008

  • Loligo pealei squids have eight arms and two tentacles, all of which are coated with suction-cups, lined with fangs composed of chitin.

    Material World: Cool Images from Science and Engineering Tracy Staedter 2008

  • Lias by a genus, ‘Belemnoteuthis’, which presents the closest relation to the existing ‘Loligo’.

    Essays 2007

  • Our existing ‘Nautilus’ has its representative species in every great formation, from the oldest to the newest; and ‘Loligo’, the squid of modern seas, appears in the lias, or at the bottom of the mesozoic series, in a form, at most, specifically different from its living congeners.

    Essays 2007

  • In what sense can ‘Loligo’ or ‘Spirula’ be said to be more specialized, or less embryonic, than ‘Belemnites’; or the modern species of

    Essays 2007

  • May 2, 2007 at 6:18 pm sara, dis be CLEARLY a spesimum ob da European Squid Loligo vulgaris, and we in WrecksQ Transpurrt regularly bring dem ober…

    I Has Been Ignoring Ur Squidz - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2007

  • The octopus, species of Octopus and Cistopus, has eight arms clustered around its mouth with which it clambers along the bottom and seizes prey; the coastal-bottom cuttlefish (species of Sepia) and open-ocean squid (species of Loligo, Todarodes, Ilex) have short arms and two long tentacles.

    On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

  • The octopus, species of Octopus and Cistopus, has eight arms clustered around its mouth with which it clambers along the bottom and seizes prey; the coastal-bottom cuttlefish (species of Sepia) and open-ocean squid (species of Loligo, Todarodes, Ilex) have short arms and two long tentacles.

    On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

  • 'Pears to me your friend is a squid or pen-and-ink fish, Loligo among the learned.

    The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Huxley, Leonard 1900

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