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Meanings of cuttle in English
Ten-armed oval-bodied cephalopod with narrow fins as long as the body and a large calcareous internal shell.
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Examples for "cuttlefish"
Examples for "cuttlefish"
1
However you cook them, you need to tenderise octopus and cuttlefish first.
2
In fact, cuttlefish seem to employ polarised body patterns in aggressive displays.
3
Behavioral analysis of cuttlefish traveling waves and its implications for neural control.
4
Cephalopods belong to a biological class that includes octopuses, squid and cuttlefish.
5
Next moment the boat ran with a thud into a monster cuttlefish.
Usage of cuttle in English
1
The movements of the cuttle-fish at sea were also looked after at war-times.
2
The Dicyemida live parasitically in the body-cavity, especially the renal cavities, of the cuttle-fishes.
3
Of this cuttle-fish we made one of the best soups we had ever tasted.
4
One is a butterfly, the other a cuttle- fish, both of them skilfully conventionalized.
5
Just fancy scouring your teeth with a commodious roll of cuttle-bone, brick-dust, and pumice-stone!
6
In the higher branch of the Mollusc world the naked Cephalopods (cuttle-fish, etc.)
7
The cuttle was anchored by three of its tentacles.
8
This they dipped in the black liquor emitted by the cuttle fish, which served for ink.
9
The fish-market was well supplied, especially with cuttle-fish.
10
Ned Land's harpoon, at each stroke, was plunged into the staring eyes of the cuttle fish.
11
In another family Moso was incarnate in the cuttle-fish, and none of them dared to eat one.
12
A huge cuttle-fish, the marine monster of Pliny and Victor Hugo, had been seen in the water.
13
As to his blood, I suppose the family quarterings are three cuttle-fish sable, and a commentator rampant.
14
The squids and cuttle-fishes regained the swimming life, and in their latest forms gave up the protective shell.
15
Like a cuttle-fish in water, every movement produces a cloud of ink which shrouds his thought in darkness.
16
The occasions upon which these gigantic cuttle-fish appear at the sea surface must, I think, be very rare.
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United Kingdom
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