Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of squids, typical of the family Sepiolidæ, having the body short, and the fins broad, short, and lobe-like, as in
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Examples
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At length I noticed an ominous clouding of the water, which, as Mr. Gosse had forewarned me, signified disaster of some sort, and, searching for the cause, I finally discovered the body of the little sepiola, which had died without being missed, and was contaminating with his decay the purity of the aquarium.
Hawthorne and His Circle Julian Hawthorne 1890
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I collected prawns and crabs and sea-snails, and a tiny sole or two, a couple of inches long, and by good chance I found a small sepiola, or cuttle-fish, as big as a beetle, which burrowed in the sand and changed color magically from dark brown to faintest buff.
Hawthorne and His Circle Julian Hawthorne 1890
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