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CUTTLE
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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:
Hypernyms ("cuttle" is a kind of...):
decapod (cephalopods having eight short tentacles plus two long ones)
Holonyms ("cuttle" is a member of...):
genus Sepia; Sepia (type genus of the Sepiidae)