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Squid   /skwɪd/   Listen
Squid

noun
1.
(Italian cuisine) squid prepared as food.  Synonyms: calamari, calamary.
2.
Widely distributed fast-moving ten-armed cephalopod mollusk having a long tapered body with triangular tail fins.



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"Squid" Quotes from Famous Books



... cleaned it. Now, as I have said, it was not unlike a great king-fish, and like it, had a mouth full of very formidable teeth; the use of which I understood the better when I saw the contents of its stomach, which seemed to consist of nothing but the coiled tentacles of squid or cuttlefish, with which, as I have shown, the weed-continent swarmed. When these were upset upon the rock, I was confounded to perceive the length and thickness of some of them; and could only conceive that this particular fish must be a very ...
— The Boats of the "Glen Carrig" • William Hope Hodgson

... know what a cephalopod was; but he did know a squid when he saw its picture, for Ruddy Cove is a fishing harbor, and he had caught many a thousand for bait. So when he found that to the lay mind a squid and a cephalopod were one and the same, save in size, he read the long article from beginning to end, doing the best he could with the ...
— The Boy Scouts Book of Stories • Various



Words linked to "Squid" :   seafood, calamary, ommastrephes, cookery, Italia, preparation, giant squid, calamari, cooking, Italian Republic, stinky squid, loligo, decapod, architeuthis, Italy



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