Usage of "cuttle" | TermGallery

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

cuttlefish

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Uso de cuttle en inglés

The movements of the cuttle-fish at sea were also looked after at war-times. 
 Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before 

The Dicyemida live parasitically in the body-cavity, especially the renal cavities, of the cuttle-fishes. 
 The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 

Of this cuttle-fish we made one of the best soups we had ever tasted. 
 A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume... 

One is a butterfly, the other a cuttle- fish, both of them skilfully conventionalized. 
 A History of Greek Art / With an Introductory Chapter on Art in ... 

Just fancy scouring your teeth with a commodious roll of cuttle-bone, brick-dust, and pumice-stone! 
 Customs and Fashions in Old New England 

In the higher branch of the Mollusc world the naked Cephalopods (cuttle-fish, etc.) 
 The Story of Evolution 

The cuttle was anchored by three of its tentacles. 
 The Wings of the Morning 

This they dipped in the black liquor emitted by the cuttle fish, which served for ink. 
 The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 01: Julius Caesar 

The fish-market was well supplied, especially with cuttle-fish. 
 A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam', Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Mont... 

Ned Land's harpoon, at each stroke, was plunged into the staring eyes of the cuttle fish. 
 Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea 

In another family Moso was incarnate in the cuttle-fish, and none of them dared to eat one. 
 Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before 

A huge cuttle-fish, the marine monster of Pliny and Victor Hugo, had been seen in the water. 
 Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume ... 

As to his blood, I suppose the family quarterings are three cuttle-fish sable, and a commentator rampant. 
 Middlemarch 

The squids and cuttle-fishes regained the swimming life, and in their latest forms gave up the protective shell. 
 The Whence and the Whither of Man / A Brief History of His Origi... 

Like a cuttle-fish in water, every movement produces a cloud of ink which shrouds his thought in darkness. 
 Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel 

The occasions upon which these gigantic cuttle-fish appear at the sea surface must, I think, be very rare. 
 The Cruise of the "Cachalot" Round the World After Sperm Whales 