squid

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  1. noun Any of various marine cephalopod mollusks of the genus Loligo and related genera, having a usually elongated body, ten arms surrounding the mouth, a vestigial internal shell, and a pair of triangular or rounded fins.

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  • When I had got as far as this in telling the story to my nephew John, he made a most peculiar noise, something between a snort and a laugh. —  Best Detective Stories
  • Labor Day weekend unfolded in sharp contrast to the events of the preceding year. —  Honorbound
  • Thanks to the other like-minded people in this thread for understanding why the squid is an acceptable loss. —  Boing Boing
  • The lobster would leap like a catapult to where the squid was apparently idly dreaming, and the squid, very alert, would dart away, shooting out at the same time a cloud of ink, behind which it would disappear. —  The Financier, a novel
  • Perhaps most chilling, the squid was alive. —  The Onion
 

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cephalopod · histioteuthis · Thysanoteuthis · Hyaloteuthis

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