CUTTLEFISH (cuttlefishes)

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Irregular inflected form: cuttlefishes   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does cuttlefish mean? 

• CUTTLEFISH (noun)
  The noun CUTTLEFISH 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: CUTTLEFISH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CUTTLEFISH (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 ("cuttlefish" is a kind of...):

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

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

genus Sepia; Sepia (type genus of the Sepiidae)

 Context examples 

In nature, animals such as chameleons and cuttlefish are able to change colour thanks to chromatophores: skin cells with contractile fibres that move pigments around.

(Colour-changing artificial ‘chameleon skin’ powered by nanomachines, University of Cambridge)