HyperDic: cuttlefish

English > 1 sense of the word *cuttlefish*:
NOUN	animal	cuttlefish, cuttle	ten-armed oval-bodied cephalopod with narrow fins as long as the body and a large calcareous internal shell

cuttlefish > pronunciation
Sounds	kah'tahlfih.sh
Rhymes	abolish ... Yiddish: 161 rhymes with ihsh...

English > *cuttlefish*: 1 sense > noun 1, animal
Meaning	Ten-armed oval-bodied cephalopod with narrow fins as long as the body and a large calcareous internal shell.
Synonym	cuttle
Member of	Sepia, genus Sepia	type genus of the Sepiidae
Broader	decapod	cephalopods having eight short tentacles plus two long ones
Spanish	jibia, sepia, sepiida
Catalan	sèpia, sípia