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cuttlefish

[kuht-l-fish] / ˈkʌt lˌfɪʃ /
NOUN
mollusk
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He said there were "positive signs" as adult cuttlefish were continuing to lay eggs and the population may recover "over coming years".

From BBC Aug. 29, 2026

A spokesperson for South Australia's Department of Primary Industries and Regions said cuttlefish populations "naturally fluctuate" depending on environmental conditions.

From BBC Aug. 29, 2026

"While it appears likely the algal bloom has impacted cuttlefish numbers, researchers are working to determine whether this contributed to the reduced population or was just one of the potential impacts."

From BBC Aug. 29, 2026

Squid and cuttlefish live in environments ranging from deep ocean waters to shallow coastal regions.

From Science Daily Apr. 1, 2026

We revised the standard manual, drew text from old games, shield from the cuttlefish, models for our sweeps from discarded sea-tackle.

From Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war by David W. (David William) Bone

Roger Hanlon of the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass., and his colleagues recently discovered that cuttlefishes actively express opsin genes throughout their skin, particularly in their fins and underbellies.

From Scientific American Aug. 20, 2012

Presumably the octopus and cuttlefish employ the same method of self-defense; they are not the only ones: Extremely sly and subtle fishes Are octopi or cuttlefishes.

From Time Magazine Archive

In some mollusks, as the cuttlefishes, it is internal, or concealed by the mantle.

From The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section S by Project Gutenberg

At one of these we ordered a sea-dinner—crabs, cuttlefishes, soles, and turbots—which we ate at a table in the open air.

From New Italian sketches by John Addington Symonds

Seven years later Lamarck  gave some account of the genera of cuttlefishes.

From Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work by A. S. (Alpheus Spring) Packard




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