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cut·tle·fish

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–noun, plural (especially collectively

) -fish, (especially referring to two or more kinds or species

) -fish·es.

any of several cephalopods, esp. of the genus Sepia, having eight arms with suckers and two tentacles, and ejecting a black, inklike fluid when in danger.

[Origin: 1400–50; late ME codel, OE cudele cuttlefish + fish

]

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n. pl. cuttlefish or cut·tle·fish·es
Any of various squidlike cephalopod marine mollusks of the genus Sepia that have ten arms and a calcareous internal shell and eject a dark inky fluid when in danger.

[Middle English codel, cotil, cuttlefish (from Old English cudele) + fish.]

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cuttlefish

O.E. cudele "the cuttlefish;" perhaps related to M.L.G. küdel "container, pocket;" O.N. koddi "cushion, testicle;" and O.E. codd (see cod).

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

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cuttlefish [ˈkatlfiʃ] noun — plural ˈcuttlefish

a sea-creature like the squid, able to squirt an inky liquid

Arabic:	صَبيْدِج، حَبّار (حيوان هُلامي)
Chinese (Simplified):	乌贼，墨鱼
Chinese (Traditional):	烏賊，墨魚
Czech:	sépie
Danish:	blæksprutte
Dutch:	inktvis
Estonian:	seepia
Finnish:	seepia
French:	seiche
German:	der Tintenfisch
Greek:	σουπιά
Hungarian:	tintahal

Icelandic:	smokkfiskur
Italian:	seppia
Japanese:	いか
Lithuanian:	sepija
Polish:	mątwa
Portuguese (Brazil):	siba
Portuguese (Portugal):	pota
Romanian:	sepie
Russian:	каракатица
Spanish:	sepia
Turkish:	mürekkep balığı

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