cuttlefish

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"Whenever they choose, the cuttlefish are able to press out this ink, and it colors the water for a great space around them The direction in which they were now swimming was taking them far out of their way.

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  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.

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  • The movement of the cuttlefish is smooth and undulating. —  GUDMagazineIssue1::Autumn2007
  • I'd sent Sergei to the fishmarket to buy a bucket of those lovely little Adriatic cuttlefish, the ones with the bright orange mantles, and I was dreaming of mulled wine and a nice spicy stew of frutti di mare to warm me up, when somebody began to pound the big knocker on the door down below. —  TheMagazineofFantasyandScienceFiction,March2005
  • Hansi, if I may be so familiar, is based in Seattle and sells patterns for such knitted delights as the praying mantis, cuttlefish, hermit crabs, jellyfish and garden snails. —  techyum ::
  • The deceased cuttlefish was then returned to the seafloor, inverted and forced along the sand substrate in order to strip the thin dorsal layer of skin off the mantle, thus releasing the buoyant calcareous cuttlebone. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • I swear I heard the word ninja when the cuttlefish was snatching that spider-like creature. —  ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
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  1. Middle English codel, cotil, cuttlefish (from Old English cudele) + fish.

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  1. from cuttle + fish; cf. Dutch kuttelvisch (Kilian; now inktvisch, inkfish), German kuttelfisch, both prob. of English origin.
 

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