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Cuttlefish

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Noun

1. cuttle, cuttlefish

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

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Cuttlefish

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noun plural -fish or -fishes
any cephalopod mollusc of the genus Sepia and related genera, which occur near the bottom of inshore waters and have a broad flattened body: order Decapoda (decapods)
. Sometimes shortened to: cuttle See also squid1

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Cuttlefish

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nounWord forms: plural ˈcuttleˌfish or ˈcuttleˌfishes
any of a family (Sepiidae) of cephalopods that have suckers on their eight arms and two tentacles, a hard internal shell, large complex eyes, and a water-ejecting jetlike siphon for locomotion: when in danger, most cuttlefishes eject a dark-brown, inklike fluid
: also ˈcuttle

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Cuttlefish

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n. pl. cuttlefish or cut·tle·fish·es
Any of various marine cephalopod mollusks of the family Sepiidae, having eight arms and two long tentacles, a calcareous internal shell, and a broad body.

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