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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One of the decapodous cephalopod mollusks of the family Onychoteuthididæ (allied to the common squids or calamaries), remarkable for the length of their tentacles, the clubbed extremities of which are armed with hooks having their bases furnished with suckers, which the animals employ to seize their prey.

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