CUTTLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cuttle mean? 

• CUTTLE (noun)
  The noun CUTTLE has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: CUTTLE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CUTTLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

cuttle; cuttlefish

Hypernyms ("cuttle" is a kind of...):

decapod (cephalopods having eight short tentacles plus two long ones)

Holonyms ("cuttle" is a member of...):

genus Sepia; Sepia (type genus of the Sepiidae)