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Devilfish

noun
1.
Medium-sized greyish-black whale of the northern Pacific.  Synonyms: Eschrichtius gibbosus, Eschrichtius robustus, gray whale, grey whale.
2.
Bottom-living cephalopod having a soft oval body with eight long tentacles.  Synonym: octopus.
3.
Extremely large pelagic tropical ray that feeds on plankton and small fishes; usually harmless but its size make it dangerous if harpooned.  Synonyms: manta, manta ray.





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"Devilfish" Quotes from Famous Books



... a superior force of the wildest red devils that ever strode a horse or fired a Winchester rifle. Slowly they drew their lines closer about the troops like the clinging tentacles of some monster devilfish, and about eleven o'clock, Bang! and the ...
— Danger Signals • John A. Hill and Jasper Ewing Brady
... The book was bound in that old-fashioned "yellow back" style which at that time was considered in clergymen's families as a symbol of all that was dissipated and dangerous; and on the outside of the yellow cover was a positively terrifying picture of the monstrous devilfish with which Gellert wrestled in ...
— Suspended Judgments - Essays on Books and Sensations • John Cowper Powys


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