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cuttlefish

/kuht-l-fish/US // ˈkʌt lˌfɪʃ //UK // (ˈkʌtəlˌfɪʃ) //

墨鱼,乌贼,鱿鱼,鲗鱼

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural cut·tle·fish, cut·tle·fish·es.

    • : any of several cephalopods, especially of the genus Sepia, having eight arms with suckers and two tentacles, and ejecting a black, inklike fluid when in danger.

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Examples

  • For the black ink (trmentum, 391) was occasionally substituted the liquid of the cuttlefish.

  • It is very similar to the ordinary cuttlefish, only, of course very much larger.

  • She leaned a bit heavily on the arm she took as they left the cuttlefish to his ill-conditioned solitude.

  • Another family—the Sepiad—contains the Cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis), the bone of which is such a common object on the beach.

  • The duke and his mother appeared to her as cuttlefish in a cave under perpendicular cliffs that ran into the sea.