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CUTTLEFISH

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: cuttlefishes   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Ten-armed oval-bodied cephalopod with narrow fins as long as the body and a large calcareous internal shell

Synonyms:

cuttle; cuttlefish

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("cuttlefish" is a kind of...):

decapod (cephalopods having eight short tentacles plus two long ones)

Holonyms ("cuttlefish" is a member of...):

genus Sepia; Sepia (type genus of the Sepiidae)

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