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cuttlefish

Syllabification: (cut·tle·fish)
Pronunciation: /ˈkətlˌfiSH/

Definition of cuttlefish

noun (plural same or cuttlefishes)

  • a swimming marine mollusk that resembles a broad squid, having eight arms and two long tentacles that are used for grabbing prey. Its internal skeleton is cuttlebone, which it uses for adjusting buoyancy.
    • Order Sepioidea, class Cephalopoda: Sepia and other genera

Origin:

late 16th century: from cuttle + fish1

cuttlefish in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of cuttlefish in the British & World English dictionary