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cuttlefish

[kuht-l-fish] / ˈkʌt lˌfɪʃ /
NOUN
mollusk
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To investigate this possibility, the research team reconstructed the three-dimensional organization of the genome in octopuses, squid, and cuttlefish.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026

In octopuses, squid, and cuttlefish, ancient rearrangements of the genome may have helped establish new regulatory networks that contributed to the development of their exceptionally sophisticated nervous systems.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026

Adult cuttlefish typically die after breeding so each mating season is crucial for the species' future, but in recent months, just 440 eggs have been counted, instead of the millions that are usually laid.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

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

Powerfully Cleansing Dentifrice.—Take fine powder of pumice stone, four drams; fine powder of cuttlefish bone, four drams; add one scruple of subcarbonate of soda.

From The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources by Anonymous

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

Also very notable was the abundance of predatory cuttlefishes, the bullies of the ancient seas.

From The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told by J. Arthur Thomson

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

From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series by Horatio Robert Forbes Brown

There are clouds of ink in the clear water, for, as Professor Hickson puts it, the cuttlefishes have thrown dust in the eyes of their enemies.

From The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told by J. Arthur Thomson


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