cuttle-bone

He describes the character of the cuttle-bone in Sepia, and of the horny pen which takes its place in the various calamaries, and notes the lack of any similar structure in Octopus.

The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield Various

Let us, by all means, not consider the obdurate if gilded barriers, but rather the lettuce and the cuttle-bone.

The Certain Hour James Branch Cabell 1918

Let us, by all means, not consider the obdurate if gilded barriers, but rather the lettuce and the cuttle-bone.

The Certain Hour 1909

They are close to cuttlefish, but have a thin horny shell inside them instead of the "cuttle-bone."

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

They are close to cuttlefish, but have a thin horny shell inside them instead of the "cuttle-bone."

Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3 Leonard Huxley 1896

Just fancy scouring your teeth with a commodious roll of cuttle-bone, brick-dust, and pumice-stone!

Customs and Fashions in Old New England Alice Morse Earle 1881

In fact, the squid has, instead of any such shell, a horny "pen," the cuttlefish has the so-called "cuttle-bone," and the octopus has no shell, or, at most,

On the Method of Zadig Thomas Henry Huxley 1860