sepia

en-noun

sepia (countable and uncountable, plural sepias)

Borrowed from Latin sēpia (“cuttlefish”), from Ancient Greek σηπία (sēpía). Cognate with Italian seppia, Portuguese siba, and Spanish sepia.

bor+

Sepia had some use in ancient times as a writing ink, and in modern times has has occasionally been used as a pigment, but it never attained any popularity, as it is extremely fugitive.

1930, A[loys] Merz, M[orris] Rea Paul, “Sepia”, in “Notes on Color Names”, in A Dictionary of Color, New York City: McGraw-Hill, page 179:

(uncountable) A dark brown pigment made from the secretions of the cuttlefish.

(by extension, countable) A sepia-coloured drawing or photograph.


sepia

en-adj

sepia (comparative more sepia, superlative most sepia)

more sepia (comparative)
most sepia (superlative)

Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine, while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry-hung wall behind.

1963, Margery Allingham, “Miss Thyrza’s Chair”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 41:

Only now did he realise how few colours there had been at the end of the universe. The world had been sepia, drained of colour and light.

1998 November 22, Lance Parkin, “Infinity and Beyond” (chapter 12), in The Infinity Doctors, BBC Books, →ISBN, page 209:


sepia

From Middle Dutch sepia, a direct borrowing from Latin sepia, and reinforced by French or Italian.


sepia

la-noun

sēpia f (genitive sēpiae); first declension

sēpia (canonical feminine)
sēpiae (genitive)
sēpia (nominative singular)
sēpiae (nominative plural)
sēpiae (genitive singular)
sēpiārum (genitive plural)
sēpiae (dative singular)
sēpiīs (dative plural)
sēpiam (accusative singular)
sēpiās (accusative plural)
sēpiā (ablative singular)
sēpiīs (ablative plural)
sēpia (singular vocative)
sēpiae (plural vocative)

Istriot:

sipa ⇒ sipariola

→ Serbo-Croatian: sipa, сипа

Italo-Romance:

Italian: seppia

Neapolitan: ceccia, seccia

Sicilian: siccia

Padanian:

⇒ Ligurian: sepieta

Piedmontese: sepia

Venetan: sepa

Northern Gallo-Romance:

French: seiche

Occitano-Romance:

Catalan: sípia, sépia ⇒ sepiera

Old Occitan: sepia, sepcha

Occitan: sépia (all dialects)

Gascon: sipa

Vivaro-Alpine: supia

Ibero-Romance:

⇒ Asturian: chipirón

→ Spanish: chipirón

>? Mozarabic:

→ Asturian: xibiones (augmentative, plural)

→ Old Galician-Portuguese:

Galician: xiba

Portuguese: siba

→ Spanish: jibia

Borrowings:

→ English: sepia

→ Hungarian: szépia

→ Polish: sepia

→ Portuguese: sépia

→ Romanian: sepia, sepie

→ Russian: сепия (sepija)

→ Spanish: sepia

From Ancient Greek σηπία (sēpía), often suggested to be from Ancient Greek σήπειν (sḗpein, “to make rotten”), but (per Beekes) could instead be a Pre-Greek word.


sepia

sepia (nominative singular)
sepie (nominative plural)
sepii (genitive singular)
sepii (genitive plural)
sepij (archaic genitive plural)
sepii (dative singular)
sepiom (dative plural)
sepię (accusative singular)
sepie (accusative plural)
sepią (instrumental singular)
sepiami (instrumental plural)
sepii (locative singular)
sepiach (locative plural)
sepio (singular vocative)
sepie (plural vocative)

Learned borrowing from Latin sēpia, from Ancient Greek σηπία (sēpía).


squid

Unknown. Perhaps a sailors' alteration of squirt.

Any of several carnivorous marine cephalopod mollusks, of the order Teuthida, having a mantle, eight arms, and a pair of tentacles

(US, military, slang, mildly derogatory) A sailor in the Navy.


squid

en-verb

squid (third-person singular simple present squids, present participle squidding, simple past and past participle squidded)

squids (present singular third-person)
squidding (participle present)
squidded (participle past)
squidded (past)

(fishing) To fish with a squid fishhook.

(parachuting) To cause squidding (an improper, partial, parachute inflation, that results in the sides of the parachute folding in on the center, and pulsating back and forth).


octopus

en-noun

octopus (countable and uncountable, plural octopuses or octopusses or octopi or octopodes or octopii)

octopuses (plural)
octopusses (plural)
octopi (plural)
octopodes (plural)
octopii (plural)

From Latin octōpūs, from Ancient Greek ὀκτώπους (oktṓpous), from ὀκτώ (oktṓ, “eight”) + πούς (poús, “foot”).

Singapore
octopus
southern blue-ringed octopus

(countable) Any of several marine molluscs of the family Octopodidae, having no internal or external protective shell or bone (unlike the nautilus, squid and cuttlefish) and eight arms each covered with suckers.

but usually just blæksprutte c in common speech

རྐང་བརྒྱད (rkang brgyad, literally “eight-feet”)


octopus

en-verb

octopus (third-person singular simple present octopusses or octopuses, present participle octopussing or octopusing, simple past and past participle octopussed or octopused)

octopusses (present singular third-person)
octopuses (present singular third-person)
octopussing (participle present)
octopusing (participle present)
octopussed (participle past)
octopussed (past)
octopused (participle past)
octopused (past)

He rises up on his wasted legs, the healer's hands octopussed on his head.

1994, Susan Ketchin, The Christ-haunted Landscape:

A skinny, sauced-looking gent in shorts and baseball cap wandered in through the door, his arms octopussing no less than three pre-teen girls.

2006, Stuart Lloyd, Gone Troppo: Hot Babes, Warm Weather, Cold Beer. Paradise!:

I took off my shirt, standing in swim trunks, embarrassed of my tour body, my hands octopussing around the ashamed drink tickets of my gut.

2018, Derrick C. Brown, Hello. It Doesn't Matter.:

To put (or attempt to put) one's fingers, hands or arms in many things or places at roughly the same time.

If they're all for a single indoor tree, caution against "octopusing" of cords from other cords, and the use of a number of cords in a single receptacle.

1963, Hardware Age - Volume 203, Issues 7-10, page 88:

By now, the reservation had electricity so THAT had to be octopussed out to the trailers too.

1985, Ted C. Williams, The Reservation, page 206:

The three electrical outlets I could see—though located six feet above the ground, beyond all their little reaches—were octopussed with what looked like more plugs than the circuits could handle.

2010, Arthur Nersesian, Mesopotamia, page 53:

It was an eight-channel audio recording snake, a bundled set of cables with eight plugs octopussing out of either end.

2011, Richard Sanders, Dead Heat, page 74:

To plug a large number of devices into a single electric outlet.

The interlocking business organizations have octopussed beyond all imagining in recent years; they are intermingled with citizens' union-smashing committees and women's strikebreaking “patriotic” groups, such as Neutral Thousands and Women of the Pacific.

1937, Fight Against War and Fascism - Volumes 5-6, page 34:

The busy man will do two things at once in his office; and with a little forethought he can practise what psychologist Freeman calls "brain octopussing" at home, too.

1953, Dun's Review and Modern Industry, volume 62, August-December 1953, page 256:

The course of study should be rooted in a survey of the needs of the community and not "octopussed" from swivel chair courses of study prepared for other areas.

1978, William Edward Field, A Review of the Undergraduate Program in Agricultural Education at the University of Minnesota, 1977, page 349:

The performance of it, however, did not improve, being octopussed by centuries-old not-to-move bureaucracy.

1993, Mohammad Abdul Mannan, Growth and development of small enterprise, page 92:

Judging by the way that Boots was octopussing himself into the world of the stud farm and mastering the intricacies of thoroughbred financing, he was well on his way to raping Sport of Kings.

2000, Murray Bromberg, The Wagers of Sin, page 102:

(by extension) To grow in use vastly beyond what was originally intended.

The sport could be called octopusing or octopus hunting— and any number may play. Supposing you catch an octopus, what do you have?

CRABBING AND OCTOPUSSING: Use the same method whether you skindive for crabs and octopi or gather them intertidally.

1977, Peter Howorth, Foraging Along the California Coast, Capra Press, →ISBN, page 97:

The municipal council assigned food quotas to each section and family contributions within sections. People spent the days before the visit fishing, octopusing, digging taro, cooking, and cleaning public spaces.

1993, Poyer Lin, NGATIK MASSACRE PB, page 163:


octopus

nl-noun

octopus m (plural octopussen, diminutive octopusje n)

octopussen (plural)
octopusje (diminutive neuter)

From Ancient Greek ὀκτώπους (oktṓpous), from ὀκτώ (oktṓ, “eight”) + πούς (poús, “foot”).


octopus

la-noun

octōpūs m (genitive octōpodis); third declension

octōpūs (canonical masculine)
octōpodis (genitive)
octōpūs (nominative singular)
octōpodēs (nominative plural)
octōpodis (genitive singular)
octōpodum (genitive plural)
octōpodī (dative singular)
octōpodibus (dative plural)
octōpodem (accusative singular)
octōpodēs (accusative plural)
octōpode (ablative singular)
octōpodibus (ablative plural)
octōpūs (singular vocative)
octōpodēs (plural vocative)

From Ancient Greek ὀκτώπους (oktṓpous, “eight feet”).

der

Jam vero testa in hac familia sola universalis pars est, Octopodis tantum exceptis.

1825, Willem de Haan, Monographiæ ammoniteorum et goniatiteorum specimen, page 10:

Now truly a shell is a part universal in this single family, octopus the notable exception.


蛸

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *sreːw, *sew): semantic 虫 + phonetic 肖 (OC *slew, *slews).


蛸

蛸 (canonical)
蛸 (canonical)
tako (romanization)

→ Hokkien: 咃鰸 (thak-kho͘h)


鯣

鯣 (canonical)
鯣 (canonical)
surume (romanization)

→ English: surume

→ Korean: 수루매 (surumae)

Dried shredded squid
Nihon Kokugo Daijiten
Wamyō Ruijushō
ja:スルメ

Unknown.
The oldest sense when first attested in the Wamyō Ruijushō of 934 is squid, apparently in reference to the Japanese flying squid commonly used after being dried. By 1334, the sense shifted to refer to the dried foodstuff.
The "dried squid" sense is now the most common, while the "type of squid" sense is often expressed using the term 鯣烏賊 (surume ika) instead.

Japanese flying squid
Japanese flying squid

the Japanese flying squid or Todarodes pacificus, commonly used after being dried


pop

Inherited from Latin polypus, from Ancient Greek πολύπους (polúpous).


calamari

en-noun

calamari (countable and uncountable, plural calamaris)

/kæləˈmɑːɹi/

Borrowed from Italian calamari, plural of calamaro, from Latin calamarius, from calamus, from Ancient Greek κάλαμος (kálamos, “reed, ink pen”).


chobotnice

chobotnice (nominative singular)
chobotnice (nominative plural)
chobotnice (genitive singular)
chobotnic (genitive plural)
chobotnici (dative singular)
chobotnicím (dative plural)
chobotnici (accusative singular)
chobotnice (accusative plural)
chobotnice (singular vocative)
chobotnice (plural vocative)
chobotnici (locative singular)
chobotnicích (locative plural)
chobotnicí (instrumental singular)
chobotnicemi (instrumental plural)

From chobot + -nice. Compare Serbo-Croatian hobotnica, Slovak chobotnica, and Slovene hobotnica.


seiche

From Latin sēpia, from Ancient Greek σηπία (sēpía).


cuttlefish

en-noun

cuttlefish (countable and uncountable, plural cuttlefishes or cuttlefish)

cuttlefishes (plural)
cuttlefish (plural)

any of various squid-like cephalopods (marine mollusks) of the order Sepiida that have eight arms, two retractable tentacles, and a calcareous internal shell, and can eject a dark ink when threatened


argonaut

(specifically, historical) A 49er, a person who took part in the California Gold Rush of 1849.


gladius

From Latin gladius (“Roman short sword, gladius”). Doublet of glaive.

bor

From the Cretaceous of North America fossilised gladii in the enigmatic genus Tusoteuthis have been estimated to give a mantle length (body size) of 1.8m, just less than that of the giant squid’s.

2017 October 31, Mark Carnall, The Guardian:

(zoology) A pen, a hard internal bodypart of certain cephalopods, made of chitin-like material.


Tintenfisch

de-noun

Tintenfisch m (strong, genitive Tintenfisches or Tintenfischs, plural Tintenfische)

Tintenfisches (genitive)
Tintenfischs (genitive)
Tintenfische (plural)
Tintenfisch (nominative singular)
Tintenfische (definite nominative plural)
Tintenfisches (genitive singular)
Tintenfischs (genitive singular)
Tintenfische (definite genitive plural)
Tintenfisch (dative singular)
Tintenfische (dative singular)
Tintenfischen (dative definite plural)
Tintenfisch (accusative singular)
Tintenfische (accusative definite plural)

Compound of Tinte (“ink”) + -n- + Fisch (“fish”).
Attested from the 17th century, as dinten Fisch, equated with Meerspin "sea-spider" in Joseph du Chesne or Duchesne (Josephus Quercetanus), Johan Adolff Ringelstein Diaeteticon polyhistoricum (Straßburg, 1625), p. 218.
Glossed as synonymous with sepia (cuttlefish) or Sepia in Tilesius, Verzeichnis verschiedener Fische und Krebse des adriatischen Meerbusens (Triest, 1796), p. 45 and in Samuel Schilling, Ausführliche Naturgeschichte des Thier-, Pflanzen- und Mineralreichs vol. 3 (1839), p. 134.
Later extended to other members of Coleoidea.
Glossed as synonymous with Octopus in Globus vol. 61 (1892), p. 195.

any member of the Coleoidea subclass of cephalopods; more specifically of cuttlefish, but also of species of octopus, squid etc.


paper nautilus

en-noun

paper nautilus (plural paper nautiluses or paper nautili)

paper nautiluses (plural)
paper nautili (plural)

A pelagic octopus of genus Argonauta, found in warm seas, whose females produce a paper-thin egg case resembling a shell into which she deposits her eggs.


nautilus

From Latin nautilus, from Ancient Greek ναυτίλος (nautílos, “paper nautilus, sailor”).

uder

He was still prepared to go on collecting all that life could offer, like a chambered nautilus patiently adding new cells to its slowly expanding spiral.

1956, Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars, page 44:

A marine mollusc, of the family Nautilidae native to the Pacific Ocean and Indian Ocean, which has tentacles and a spiral shell with a series of air-filled chambers, of which Nautilus is the type genus.


nautilus

la-noun

nautilus m (genitive nautilī); second declension

nautilī (genitive)
nautilus (nominative singular)
nautilī (nominative plural)
nautilī (genitive singular)
nautilōrum (genitive plural)
nautilō (dative singular)
nautilīs (dative plural)
nautilum (accusative singular)
nautilōs (accusative plural)
nautilō (ablative singular)
nautilīs (ablative plural)
nautile (singular vocative)
nautilī (plural vocative)

Catalan: nàutil

English: nautilus

French: nautile

Italian: nautilo

Portuguese: náutilo

Romanian: nautil

Spanish: nautilo

Translingual: Nautilus

[ˈnäu̯t̪ɪɫ̪ʊs̠]

From Ancient Greek ναυτίλος (nautílos, “nautilus, sailor”); see naval.

der

paper nautilus, argonaut (genus Argonauta)


panos

tlb

(dialectal, Batangas, Mindoro, Marinduque)

Compare Bikol Central kanuos, Cebuano nukos, Maranao kano'os, Tausug kanuus, Malay nus, and Javanese ꦤꦸꦱ꧀ (nus).


calamaro

→ Catalan: calamar

→ Spanish: calamar

→ English: calamari

From a Central Italian variant of calamaio, ultimately from Latin calamus.


choco

(Spain) any of a number of species of squid or cuttlefish


오징어

Nativisation of the Sino-Korean term 烏賊魚 (ojeogeo, “cuttlefish”).


polpo

eo-head

polpo (accusative singular polpon, plural polpoj, accusative plural polpojn)

polpon (accusative singular)
polpoj (plural)
polpojn (accusative plural)

Borrowed from Italian polpo, from Latin polypus, from Ancient Greek πολύπους (polúpous, “many-footed”).


polpo

From Latin polypus, from Ancient Greek πολύπους (polúpous). Cognates include Spanish pulpo and Sicilian purpu. Unrelated to polpa.


pulpo

Inherited from Latin polypus (“cuttlefish, polyp”) (compare Catalan polp, pop, French poulpe, Galician polbo, Italian polpo, Portuguese polvo), from a variant of Ancient Greek πολύπους (polúpous, literally “many footed”), from πολύς (polús, “many”) + πούς (poús, “foot”). Doublet of pólipo.


smokkur

is-noun

smokkur m (genitive singular smokks, nominative plural smokkar)

smokks (genitive singular)
smokkar (nominative plural)
smokkur (indefinite nominative singular)
smokkurinn (definite nominative singular)
smokkar (indefinite nominative plural)
smokkarnir (definite nominative plural)
smokk (accusative indefinite singular)
smokkinn (accusative definite singular)
smokka (accusative indefinite plural)
smokkana (accusative definite plural)
smokki (dative indefinite singular)
smokk (dative indefinite singular)
smokknum (dative definite singular)
smokkum (dative indefinite plural)
smokkunum (dative definite plural)
smokks (genitive indefinite singular)
smokksins (definite genitive singular)
smokka (genitive indefinite plural)
smokkanna (definite genitive plural)

Possibly inherited from Old Norse smokkr.


chambered nautilus

en-noun

chambered nautilus (plural chambered nautiluses or chambered nautili)

chambered nautiluses (plural)
chambered nautili (plural)

A marine mollusc, of the family Nautilidae native to the Pacific Ocean and Indian Ocean, which has tentacles and a spiral shell with a series of air-filled chambers.


belemnite

From Ancient Greek βέλεμνον (bélemnon, “dart, arrow”) + -ite.

af

In the universal decay this volatile substance had chanced to survive, perhaps through many thousands of centuries. It reminded me of a sepia painting I had once seen done from the ink of a fossil Belemnite that must have perished and become fossilized millions of years ago.

1895, H. G. Wells, chapter VIII, in The Time Machine:

The guts of fossilized marine reptiles are packed with belemnites, and it's been theorized that some prehistoric sharks even died from the overconsumption of heavy belemnite shell guards.

2017, Danna Staaf, Squid Empire, ForeEdge, →ISBN, page 101:

(paleontology) Any member of the extinct order †Belemnitida of Mesozoic marine cephalopods, very similar in many ways to the modern squid and closely related to the modern cuttlefish.

blemnit

a member of the extinct order Belemnitida

vættelys

fossil remain of a belemnite arm, resembling a short candle


polypus

From Latin polypus, from Ancient Greek πολύπους (polúpous). Doublet of polyp.

He had been becalmed in the tropical seas, and had watched, in eager expectation, though unhappily always in vain, to see the colossal polypus rise from the water, and entwine its enormous arms round the masts and the rigging.

1818, Thomas Love Peacock, Nightmare Abbey, section VII:

From many a wondrous grot and secret cell
Unnumbered and enormous polypi
Winnow with giant arms the slumbering green.

1830, Alfred Tennyson, “The Kraken”, in Poems, Chiefly Lyrical:

(obsolete) A tentacled cephalopod, such as an octopus, squid, or cuttlefish.


polypus

la-noun

pō̆lypus m (genitive pō̆lypī); second declension

pō̆lypus (canonical masculine)
pō̆lypī (genitive)
pō̆lypus (nominative singular)
pō̆lypī (nominative plural)
pō̆lypī (genitive singular)
pō̆lypōrum (genitive plural)
pō̆lypō (dative singular)
pō̆lypīs (dative plural)
pō̆lypum (accusative singular)
pō̆lypōs (accusative plural)
pō̆lypō (ablative singular)
pō̆lypīs (ablative plural)
pō̆lype (singular vocative)
pō̆lypī (plural vocative)

Italo-Romance:

Corsican: polpu, pulpu, porpu

Italian: polpo

→ Esperanto: polpo

→ Ido: polpo

Neapolitan: purpo

Sicilian: purpu, pruppu, puppu, pùippu

North Italian:

Gallo-Italic:

Ligurian: pórpo

Piedmontese: pòrpo

Romagnol: pôlp

Friulian: folp

Venetan: folpo

Gallo-Romance:

Old Catalan: polp

desc

dialectal <i class="Latn mention" lang="ca">polp</i>

Catalan: pop (dialectal polp)

Old French: *puelve, *pueuve

Norman: puerve; pieuvre (Jersey, Guernsey)

→ French: pieuvre

→ Haitian Creole: pyèv

→ Italian: piovra

Occitan: pofre

Ibero-Romance:

Asturian: pulpu

Old Galician-Portuguese: polbo

Galician: polbo

Portuguese: polvo

Spanish: pulpo

Insular Romance:

Sardinian:

Campidanese: pulpu, pruppu

Logudorese: pulpu, pruppu

Nuorese: purpu, pruppu

Borrowings:

→ Catalan: pòlip

→ German: Polyp

→ Hungarian: polip

→ English: polyp; polypus

→ Middle French: poupe

French: poulpe

→ English: poulp, poulpe

desctree

→ French: polype
→ Ottoman Turkish: پولیپ (polip)
Turkish: polip
→ Romanian: polip

→ Galician: pólipo

→ Italian: polipo

→ Portuguese: pólipo

→ Spanish: pólipo

[ˈpɔlʲʏpʊs̠]

From Ancient Greek πολύπους (polúpous) (or from Doric Ancient Greek πώλυπος (pṓlupos) for the variant with long ō).


осьминог

ru-noun+

осьмино́г • (osʹminóg) m anim (genitive осьмино́га, nominative plural осьмино́ги, genitive plural осьмино́гов, relational adjective осьмино́жий, diminutive осьмино́жка)

осьмино́г (canonical)
osʹminóg (romanization)
осьмино́га (genitive)
осьмино́ги (nominative plural)
осьмино́гов (genitive plural)
осьмино́жий (adjective relational)
осьмино́жка (diminutive)
осьмино́г (nominative singular)
осьмино́ги (nominative plural)
осьмино́га (genitive singular)
осьмино́гов (genitive plural)
осьмино́гу (dative singular)
осьмино́гам (dative plural)
осьмино́га (accusative singular)
осьмино́гов (accusative plural)
осьмино́гом (instrumental singular)
осьмино́гами (instrumental plural)
осьмино́ге (prepositional singular)
осьмино́гах (plural prepositional)

→ Armenian: ասմինոգ (asminog)

→ Azerbaijani: osminoq

Ru-осьминог.ogg

Inherited from Old East Slavic осмь (osmĭ) (Modern Russian во́семь (vósemʹ)), from Proto-Slavic *osmь (“eight”) + genitive plural of *noga (“foot”).

inh+

осьмино́гъ — Pre-reform orthography (1918)


poulpe

Ultimately borrowed from Latin polypūs, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek πολύπους (polúpous). Doublet of polype and pieuvre.


章魚

/ʈ͡ʂɑŋ⁵⁵ y³⁵/

/t͡sœːŋ⁵⁵ jyː²¹/

/t͡sœːŋ⁵⁵ jyː²¹⁻³⁵/

/t͡sɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³⁵ n̩¹¹/

/t͡suoŋ⁵⁵ ŋy⁵³/

/t͡siũ⁴⁴⁻³³ hi²³/

/t͡siũ⁴⁴⁻²² hi²⁴/

/t͡siũ⁴⁴⁻³³ hu²⁴/

/t͡siɔ̃⁴⁴⁻³³ hi²⁴/

/ʈ͡ʂɑŋ⁵⁵ y³⁵/

/t͡sœːŋ⁵⁵ jyː²¹/

/t͡sœːŋ⁵⁵ jyː²¹⁻³⁵/

/t͡sɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³⁵ n̩¹¹/

/t͡suoŋ⁵⁵ ŋy⁵³/

/t͡siũ⁴⁴⁻³³ hi²³/

/t͡siũ⁴⁴⁻²² hi²⁴/

/t͡siũ⁴⁴⁻³³ hu²⁴/

/t͡siɔ̃⁴⁴⁻³³ hi²⁴/


sea grape

en-noun

sea grape (countable and uncountable, plural sea grapes)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-sea grape.wav

Most of Indian Key seems to be swamp, covered with mangrove roots. But there is a small gravel beach where we landed, and a few yards inland we found a sheltered spot on dry ground for the tent. We pitched it under a sea-grape tree.

1941 March 12, Charles A. Lindbergh, The Wartime Journals of Charles A. Lindbergh, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, published 1970, page 461:

A small tree, Coccoloba uvifera, that grows on sandy beaches in tropical America; it has clusters of purple fruit.

A leafless plant found in sandy soils along the coast and inland from southern and central Europe to central Asia, Ephedra distachya, which has edible fruit and is harvested for the ephedrine found in its green stems.

(UK, Ireland) Any plant in the genus Ephedra, especially those native to Europe and neighboring parts of Africa and Asia.

Seaweeds in the genus Caulerpa, eaten in Southeast Asia, especially Caulerpa lentillifera and Caulerpa racemosa.

Gulfweed, a kind of brown alga (Sargassum).

w:Webster's Dictionary#Webster's New International Dictionary 1909

The clusters of gelatinous egg capsules of a squid (Loligo).

Any animal in the genus Molgula, bottom-dwelling sea squirts that look like peeled grapes.


colossal squid

colossal squid (plural colossal squids or colossal squid)

colossal squids (plural)
colossal squid (plural)

An enormous squid (Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni), of which few specimens have been studied.


giant squid

giant squid (plural giant squids or giant squid)

giant squids (plural)
giant squid (plural)

From giant + squid from being a gigantic version of the squid.

Any of the very large squid, of the genus Architeuthis (family Architeuthidae), that live at great depths, and of which little is known.

巨烏賊 /巨乌贼

any of the very large squid of genus Architeuthis


hlavonožec

hlavonožec (nominative singular)
hlavonožci (nominative plural)
hlavonožce (genitive singular)
hlavonožců (genitive plural)
hlavonožci (dative singular)
hlavonožcům (dative plural)
hlavonožce (accusative singular)
hlavonožce (accusative plural)
hlavonožče (singular vocative)
hlavonožci (plural vocative)
hlavonožci (locative singular)
hlavonožcích (locative plural)
hlavonožcem (instrumental singular)
hlavonožci (instrumental plural)


ammonite

From French ammonite, from Latin Ammōnis (cornū) (“horn of Ammon”), as it was called by Pliny the Elder in reference to coiling ram horns used to symbolise the Egyptian god Amun. Equivalent to Ammon + -ite.

Ammonites floated through the world's shallow oceans for more than three hundred million years, and their fossilized shells turn up all around the world.

2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Picador, →ISBN, page 83:

(paleontology) Any of an extinct group of cephalopods of the subclass Ammonoidea; a fossil shell of such an animal.


Ammonoidea

A taxonomic subclass within the class Cephalopoda – the ammonites, extinct from 66Ma.


Riesenkalmar

de-noun

Riesenkalmar m (strong, genitive Riesenkalmars, plural Riesenkalmare)

Riesenkalmars (genitive)
Riesenkalmare (plural)
Riesenkalmar (nominative singular)
Riesenkalmare (definite nominative plural)
Riesenkalmars (genitive singular)
Riesenkalmare (definite genitive plural)
Riesenkalmar (dative singular)
Riesenkalmaren (dative definite plural)
Riesenkalmar (accusative singular)
Riesenkalmare (accusative definite plural)


krakatice

krakatice (nominative singular)
krakatice (nominative plural)
krakatice (genitive singular)
krakatic (genitive plural)
krakatici (dative singular)
krakaticím (dative plural)
krakatici (accusative singular)
krakatice (accusative plural)
krakatice (singular vocative)
krakatice (plural vocative)
krakatici (locative singular)
krakaticích (locative plural)
krakaticí (instrumental singular)
krakaticemi (instrumental plural)


inktvis

nl-noun

inktvis m (plural inktvissen, diminutive inktvisje n)

inktvissen (plural)
inktvisje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: inkvis

Inktvis is een misleidende naam: het is helemaal geen vis, zelfs geen gewerveld dier, en inktvissen produceren ook geen echte inkt, al wordt er wel pasta sepia gekleurd met het goedje

"Inktvis" is a misleading name: it's not a fish at all, not even a vertebrate, and squids produce no actual ink either, although some pasta is colored sepia with the stuff

a squid, marine mollusk of the superorder Decabrachia or Decapodiformes or more generally (including octopuses) of the class Cephalopoda


calamar

→ Spanish: calamar

Borrowed from Italian calamaro, from Latin calamārius.


calamar

Borrowed from Catalan calamar, itself borrowed from Italian calamaro, from Latin calamārius, an adjective based on Latin calamus, a borrowing from Ancient Greek κάλαμος (kálamos, “reed, ink pen”).


Krake

de-noun

Krake (traditional or scientific) m (weak, genitive Kraken, plural Kraken)

Krake (colloquial) f (genitive Krake, plural Kraken)

or scientific (traditional)
Kraken (genitive)
Kraken (plural)
Krake (genitive)
Kraken (plural)
Krake (nominative singular)
Kraken (definite nominative plural)
Kraken (genitive singular)
Kraken (definite genitive plural)
Kraken (dative singular)
Kraken (dative definite plural)
Kraken (accusative singular)
Kraken (accusative definite plural)
Krake (nominative singular)
Kraken (definite nominative plural)
Krake (genitive singular)
Kraken (definite genitive plural)
Krake (dative singular)
Kraken (dative definite plural)
Krake (accusative singular)
Kraken (accusative definite plural)

From Norwegian Kraken, definite singular of krake (“sea monster”).

(chiefly sciences) a mollusk of the order Octopoda; an octopus in the broader sense


烏賊

/u⁵⁵ t͡seɪ̯³⁵/

/wuː⁵⁵ t͡sʰaːk̚²/

/ɔu⁵³³⁻²¹ ^((t͡sʰ-))lɛʔ⁴/

/ɔu⁵³³⁻²¹ ^((t͡sʰ-))lɛʔ²⁴/

/u⁵⁵ t͡seɪ̯³⁵/

/wuː⁵⁵ t͡sʰaːk̚²/

/ɔu⁵³³⁻²¹ ^((t͡sʰ-))lɛʔ⁴/

/ɔu⁵³³⁻²¹ ^((t͡sʰ-))lɛʔ²⁴/

Attested earliest in the Yi Zhou Shu as □鰂 (missing 1st component being presumably 烏):
*
An early apperance of 烏鰂 is in the Huangdi Neijing (translation based on Yang, 2019):
*

Your servant requests that, from the east, the Fulou, the hostile provinces, Yilu, Oushen, Nine Yi, Ten Man, the peoples who cut their hair and tattoo their bodies, be commanded to bring fish-skin scabbards, cuttlefish sauce, shark[-skin] shields, and sharp swords as tributes.

Lost Book of Zhou, circa 4ᵗʰ – 1ˢᵗ centuries BCE

Chén qǐng zhèngdōng Fúlóu, chóuzhōu, Yīlǜ, Òushēn, Jiǔyí, Shímán, Yuè'òu, jiǎnfà wénshēn, qǐng lìng yǐ yú (pí) zhī bǐng, □zéi zhī jiàng, jiāo fá, lìjiàn wèi xiàn.

臣請正東符婁、仇州、伊慮、漚深、九夷、十蠻、越漚、鬋髮文身，請令以魚（皮）之鞞、□鰂之醬、鮫瞂、利劍為獻。

臣请正东符娄、仇州、伊虑、沤深、九夷、十蛮、越沤、鬋发文身，请令以鱼（皮）之鞞、□鲗之酱、鲛瞂、利剑为献。

Four parts of cuttlebone and one part of Rubia are [to be] mixed with sparrow egg to make pills like small beans. Five pills are [to be] taken in with abalone juice after meals in order to smooth the intestine and relieve the liver damage

Huangdi Neijing, 4ᵗʰ century BCE to 3ʳᵈ century CE

Yǐ sì wūzéigǔ yī lǘrú èr wù bìnghé zhī, wán yǐ quèluǎn, dà rú xiǎodòu, yǐ wǔ wán wèi hòu fàn, yǐn yǐ bàoyú zhī, lì chángzhōng jí shānggān yě.

以四烏鰂骨一藘茹二物并合之，丸以雀卵，大如小豆，以五丸為後飯，飲以鮑魚汁，利腸中及傷肝也。

以四乌鲗骨一𰱮茹二物并合之，丸以雀卵，大如小豆，以五丸为后饭，饮以鲍鱼汁，利肠中及伤肝也。

乌贼
烏鰂
鰞鰂
鰞鱡
烏鱡

[Su] Song: Squids are a variation similar to the cuttlefishes, but without a bone. The Yue people value them. (translation by Unschuld, 2021)

The Compendium of Materia Medica [Bencao Gangmu], by Li Shizhen, 1578 CE

［ Sū ］ Sòng yuē ︰ yīzhǒng róuyú, yǔ wūzéi xiàngsì, dàn wú gǔ ěr. Yuèrén zhòng zhī.

［蘇］頌曰︰一種柔魚，與烏賊相似，但無骨爾。越人重之。

［苏］颂曰︰一种柔鱼，与乌贼相似，但无骨尔。越人重之。

Dongyi
Huangdi Neijing
Nanman
Yi Zhou Shu


烏賊

烏賊 (canonical)
烏賊 (canonical)
ika (romanization)

From Old Japanese, from Proto-Japonic *ika. First cited to the 播磨風土記 (Satsuma Fudoki) of 715.
Ultimate derivation uncertain. Derivations from within Japanese include:
* Related to 厳めしい (ikameshii, “imposing; offputting”)
* Related to 怒る (ikaru, “to move in a rough or wild fashion”)
Outside of Japanese, compare also Hawaiian iʻa, Maori ika (“fish, marine animal in general”), in turn ultimately from Proto-Austronesian *Sikan (“fish”).
The kanji is an orthographic borrowing from Chinese 烏賊 /乌贼 (wūzéi, literally “crow + murderer / thief”). According to the 和名類聚抄 (Wamyō Ruijushō) of 938, the spelling was chosen for the way that certain squid would feign death and float motionless on the surface near shore, and when a crow would come to pick up the "dead" squid, the squid would instead grab the crow and drag it underwater.

obor

Fudoki
Nihon Kokugo Daijiten
Wamyō Ruijushō
ja:和名類聚抄
ja:播磨国風土記


ammonoid

Although the extinct externally shelled cephalopods ammonoids have an extensive fossil record, their soft tissues are very poorly known and, like extinct and living nautiloids, they are largely presumed to not have possessed an ink sac.

2017 August 9, Mark Carnall, The Guardian:

An extinct cephalopod of the subclass †Ammonoidea (including ammonites).


ត្រីមឹក

km-noun

ត្រីមឹក • (trəy mɨk)


loligo

the learned may consider the Crystalline humour of the eye in the cuttle fish and Loligo.

1658, Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus:

[…]the loligos or squids, the sepias, and the argonauts or paper nautili, are among the best known of its representatives.

1882 October, Popular Science, volume 21, number 46, page 755:

A member of the Loligo genus of cephalopods; a squid.


coleoid

From scientific Latin Coleoidea (subclass name).
Wikispecies

A scabbard covers a sword, and the bodies of coleoids cover their shells (or lack thereof).

2017, Danna Staaf, Squid Empire, ForeEdge, →ISBN, page 12:

A cephalopod of the subclass Coleoidea, including octopuses, squid and cuttlefish.


kalmar

kalmar (nominative singular)
kalmary (nominative plural)
kalmara (genitive singular)
kalmarów (genitive plural)
kalmarowi (dative singular)
kalmarom (dative plural)
kalmara (accusative singular)
kalmary (accusative plural)
kalmarem (instrumental singular)
kalmarami (instrumental plural)
kalmarze (locative singular)
kalmarach (locative plural)
kalmarze (singular vocative)
kalmary (plural vocative)

Borrowed from French calmar, from Italian calamaro, from Latin calamārius. Doublet of kałamarz.


sepiolid

(biology) Any of the order Sepiolida of bobtail squids.


kraak

nl-noun

kraak m (plural kraken, diminutive kraakje n)

kraken (plural)
kraakje (diminutive neuter)


zeekat

zeekat f (plural zeekatten, diminutive zeekatje n)

zeekatten (plural)
zeekatje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: seekat

a cuttlefish, a 10-armed predatory marine mollusc


greater argonaut

en-noun

greater argonaut (plural greater argonauts)

Argonauta argo
Argonauta argo#Translingual


ութոտնուկ

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ութոտնուկ • (utʻotnuk)

utʻotnuk (romanization)
ութոտնուկ (nominative singular)
ութոտնուկներ (nominative plural)
ութոտնուկի (dative singular)
ութոտնուկների (dative plural)
ութոտնուկից (ablative singular)
ութոտնուկներից (ablative plural)
ութոտնուկով (instrumental singular)
ութոտնուկներով (instrumental plural)
ութոտնուկը (definite nominative singular)
ութոտնուկն (definite nominative singular)
ութոտնուկները (definite nominative plural)
ութոտնուկներն (definite nominative plural)
ութոտնուկին (dative definite singular)
ութոտնուկներին (dative definite plural)
ութոտնուկս (first-person nominative possessive singular)
ութոտնուկներս (first-person nominative plural possessive)
ութոտնուկիս (dative first-person possessive singular)
ութոտնուկներիս (dative first-person plural possessive)
ութոտնուկիցս (ablative first-person possessive singular)
ութոտնուկներիցս (ablative first-person plural possessive)
ութոտնուկովս (first-person instrumental possessive singular)
ութոտնուկներովս (first-person instrumental plural possessive)
ութոտնուկդ (nominative possessive second-person singular)
ութոտնուկներդ (nominative plural possessive second-person)
ութոտնուկիդ (dative possessive second-person singular)
ութոտնուկներիդ (dative plural possessive second-person)
ութոտնուկիցդ (ablative possessive second-person singular)
ութոտնուկներիցդ (ablative plural possessive second-person)
ութոտնուկովդ (instrumental possessive second-person singular)
ութոտնուկներովդ (instrumental plural possessive second-person)

hy-decl-noun

ութոտնուկը/ութոտնուկն

ութոտնուկներ

ութոտնուկները/ութոտնուկներն

ութոտնուկների

ութոտնուկներին

ութոտնուկներից

ութոտնուկներով

ութոտնուկներս

ութոտնուկներիս

ութոտնուկիցս

ութոտնուկներիցս

ութոտնուկովս

ութոտնուկներովս

ութոտնուկներդ

ութոտնուկներիդ

ութոտնուկիցդ

ութոտնուկներիցդ

ութոտնուկովդ

ութոտնուկներովդ

From ութ (utʻ, “eight”) + ոտն- (otn-, “foot”) + -ուկ (-uk).


aluda

From Latin lōlīgō. Compare Galician lura, Portuguese lula.


ośmiornica

ośmiorniczka (diminutive)
ośmiornica (nominative singular)
ośmiornice (nominative plural)
ośmiornicy (genitive singular)
ośmiornic (genitive plural)
ośmiornicy (dative singular)
ośmiornicom (dative plural)
ośmiornicę (accusative singular)
ośmiornice (accusative plural)
ośmiornicą (instrumental singular)
ośmiornicami (instrumental plural)
ośmiornicy (locative singular)
ośmiornicach (locative plural)
ośmiornico (singular vocative)
ośmiornice (plural vocative)

From ośmioro + -nica. Sense 3 is a semantic loan from Italian piovra, perhaps from the name of the Italian series La Piovra, which is about the Mafia.


hobotnica

sh-noun

hòbotnica f (Cyrillic spelling хо̀ботница)

hòbotnica (canonical feminine)
хо̀ботница (Cyrillic)
hobotnica (nominative singular)
hobotnice (nominative plural)
hobotnice (genitive singular)
hobotnica (genitive plural)
hobotnici (dative singular)
hobotnicama (dative plural)
hobotnicu (accusative singular)
hobotnice (accusative plural)
hobotnice (singular vocative)
hobotnico (singular vocative)
hobotnice (plural vocative)
hobotnici (locative singular)
hobotnicama (locative plural)
hobotnicom (instrumental singular)
hobotnicama (instrumental plural)


hobotnica

hobọ̑tnica (canonical feminine)
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hobótnica (nominative singular)
hobótnici (dual nominative)
hobótnice (nominative plural)
hobótnice (genitive singular)
hobótnic (dual genitive)
hobótnic (genitive plural)
hobótnici (dative singular)
hobótnicama (dative dual)
hobótnicam (dative plural)
hobótnico (accusative singular)
hobótnici (accusative dual)
hobótnice (accusative plural)
hobótnici (locative singular)
hobótnicah (dual locative)
hobótnicah (locative plural)
hobótnico (instrumental singular)
hobótnicama (dual instrumental)
hobótnicami (instrumental plural)


totano

(mollusk) European flying squid (Todarodes sagittatus)


χταπόδι

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χταπόδι • (chtapódi) n (plural χταπόδια)

chtapódi (romanization)
χταπόδια (plural)
χταπόδι (nominative singular)
χταπόδια (nominative plural)
χταποδιού (genitive singular)
χταποδιών (genitive plural)
χταπόδι (accusative singular)
χταπόδια (accusative plural)
χταπόδι (singular vocative)
χταπόδια (plural vocative)

Inherited from Byzantine Greek ὀκταπόδιον (oktapódion), from Ancient Greek ὀκταπόδιον (oktapódion), diminutive of ὀκτάπους (oktápous).


ceratitid

(zoology) Any extinct ammonite of the order Ceratitida.


argonauta

argonauta (nominative singular)
argonauty (nominative plural)
argonauty (genitive singular)
argonautów (genitive plural)
argonaucie (dative singular)
argonautom (dative plural)
argonautę (accusative singular)
argonauty (accusative plural)
argonautą (instrumental singular)
argonautami (instrumental plural)
argonaucie (locative singular)
argonautach (locative plural)
argonauto (singular vocative)
argonauty (plural vocative)

Learned borrowing from Latin Argonauta, from Ancient Greek Ἀργοναύτης (Argonaútēs).

(biology) argonaut (any of several species of shelled octopods of the family Argonautidae)


argonauta

(Greek mythology) Argonaut (a member of the Argo who searched for the Golden Fleece)

argonaut (a pelagic octopus of the genus Argonauta)


cirrate

From Latin cirratus (“having ringlets”), from cirrus (“a curl”).


хоботница

хо̀ботница (canonical feminine)
hòbotnica (romanization)
хоботница (nominative singular)
хоботнице (nominative plural)
хоботнице (genitive singular)
хоботница (genitive plural)
хоботници (dative singular)
хоботницама (dative plural)
хоботницу (accusative singular)
хоботнице (accusative plural)
хоботнице (singular vocative)
хоботницо (singular vocative)
хоботнице (plural vocative)
хоботници (locative singular)
хоботницама (locative plural)
хоботницом (instrumental singular)
хоботницама (instrumental plural)

sh-decl-noun

хоботнице / хоботницо

хо‧бот‧ни‧ца


kweet

From Proto-Oceanic *kuʀita, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kuʀita, from Proto-Austronesian *guʀiCa. Cognate with Kavalan qlita, Paiwan guritsa, Malay kurita, Ilocano kurita, Cebuano kugita, Javanese gurita, Malagasy horita, Fijian kuita.


octopussy

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-octopussy.wav

Diminutive of octopus, either from octopus + -y or by analogy with pussy.

Lovable old Sam, with as many arms as an octopussy.

"Big fish like sharks and whales and—" she struggled with the word "— octopussies."

The bloody sea is filled with giant, man-eating sharks, and poisonous jellyfish, and bloody poisonous octopussies.


gunnadóir

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gunnadóir m (genitive singular gunnadóra, nominative plural gunnadóirí)

gunnadóra (genitive singular)
gunnadóirí (nominative plural)
nominative (indefinite)
gunnadóir (indefinite singular)
gunnadóirí (indefinite plural)
vocative (indefinite)
a ghunnadóir (indefinite singular)
a ghunnadóirí (indefinite plural)
genitive (indefinite)
gunnadóra (indefinite singular)
dative (indefinite)
nominative (definite)
an gunnadóir (definite singular)
na gunnadóirí (definite plural)
genitive (definite)
an ghunnadóra (definite singular)
na ngunnadóirí (definite plural)
dative (definite)
leis an ngunnadóir (definite singular)
don ghunnadóir (definite singular)
leis na gunnadóirí (definite plural)
gunnadóir
ghunnadóir
ngunnadóir


cúc

[kʊwk͡p̚˦˧˥]


bạch tuộc

[ʔɓajk̟̚˧˨ʔ tuək̚˧˨ʔ]

[ʔɓat̚˨˩ʔ tuək̚˨˩ʔ]

[ʔɓat̚˨˩˨ tuək̚˨˩˨]

Probably a non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 八足 (“eight feet”, SV: bát túc) or non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 百足 (“one hundred feet”, SV: bách túc). The first is more biologically likely but the second is more phonologically sound.

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SV: <i class="Latn mention" lang="vi">bát túc</i>

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aptychus

Modern Latin, from a- + Ancient Greek πτυχή (ptukhḗ, “fold, layer”).

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It wasn't until the 1970s that paleontologists had amassed enough evidence to be certain that aptychi were modified lower jaws.

2017, Danna Staaf, Squid Empire, ForeEdge, →ISBN, page 95:

(paleontology) A hard calcareous plate forming part of the body of an ammonite.


devilfish

en-noun

devilfish (plural devilfishes or devilfish)

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The unattractive reptilian specimen in the man’s right hand is an octopus, or devilfish, which constitutes a favorite dish with the Asiatics of the islands.

1899, Jose de Olivares, Our Islands and Their People as Seen with Camera and Pencil, St. Louis, M.O., New York, N.Y.: Thompson Pub. Co, page 470:

We have all heard of the octopus or devil-fish, with its long arms covered with powerful suckers, which is always waiting to seize the unsuspecting, choke and bite him, always grasping with another arm when the grip of one of them is loosened—suitable symbol of the trust.

1913, Victor Ernest Shelford, Animal Communities in Temperate America, Chicago, I.L.: University of Chicago Press, page 5:

The devilfish felt the menace of his attitude, and his two longest tentacles began to writhe in the air, as he measured our distance.

1922, Frederick O'Brien, Atolls of the Sun, Toronto, ON: McClelland & Stewart, pages 164–165:

The devilfishes, or octopuses, vary from 2 inches to 28 feet in spread. They have a flexible bulbous body without a shell and eight long sucker-bearing tentacles.

1951, Tracy I. Storer, General Zoology, New York, N.Y., Toronto, ON, London: McGraw Hill, page 435:

This bloody tinge drew the attention of a giant octopus, or "devilfish," who lived in the deep. Rising to the surface, "looking very white" (as a dead tentacle does, though a live octopus does not), it extended a single mammoth tentacle, encircled the fish camp, and swept it into the sea, gorging itself on the people and smashing their canoes.

1999, Jonathan Raban, Passage to Juneau: A Sea and Its Meanings, New York, N.Y.: Pantheon Books, →ISBN, page 46:

(dated) Any of several not closely related marine animals:

It can easily be imagined that such creatures as these could drown a man, or upset a boat, and they have furnished material for many fabulous accounts of sea-serpents and devil-fishes.

1880, James Henry Emerton, Life on the Seashore, Or, Animals of Our Coasts and Bay, Salem, M.A.: George A. Bates, page 94:

At the bottom of the story of Skylla may lie a sailor's tale of the kraken or devil-fish, which sometimes grows to a gigantic size; Charybdis is obviously nothing but a dangerous whirlpool.

1901, H[ermann] Steuding, translated by Lionel D. Barnett, Greek and Roman mythology and Heroic Legend, London: Dent, page 53:

Devilfishes have been discovered in various seas, which weighed several hundred pounds, and whose length ranged from fifty to seventy or more feet.

1905, Charles Frederick Holder, Half Hours With the Lower Animals, New York, N.Y., Cincinnati, O.H., Chicago, I.L.: American Book Company, page 117:

"Doctor," inquired Charley, "would you call the kraken or devil-fish a legendary or real sea-serpent?"

1909, Edwin J. Houston, At school in the Cannibal Islands, Boston, M.A., Chicago, I.L., St. Louis, M.O., Atlanta, G.A., Dallas, T.X.: Griffith & Rowland Press, page 139:

The Horror had besides eight or ten long tentacles studded with suckers like those of the giant squid or devil-fish. These measured at least thirty feet—thick as a man's thigh near the creature's body, fining down at their extremities like the tip of an elephant's trunk.

1913, “The Deep-Sea Kraken”, in Alfred Holman, editor, The Argonaut, volume 72, page 302:

Old books--many of them dating back to the last two centuries--contain pictures and descriptions of huge devilfishes overwhelming and capsizing ships with their tentacles.

1923, William Crowder, Dwellers of The Sea and Shore, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, page 198:

The trail led through a scrub pine forest where we tripped over bare roots of trees that curled over and around rocks and boulders like great devilfishes.

1939, Martha Black, Elizabeth Bailey Price, My Seventy Years, London [and others]: Thomas Nelson and Sons, page 108:

Today they are represented by only a few hundred species, but these include such fascinating animals as the octopus, the giant devilfish (or giant squid, which is the largest animal without a backbone), the paper nautilus, and the pearly nautilus.

1965, Robert T. Orr, The Animal Kingdom, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, page 99:


каракатица

ru-noun+

карака́тица • (karakática) f anim (genitive карака́тицы, nominative plural карака́тицы, genitive plural карака́тиц)

карака́тица (canonical)
karakática (romanization)
карака́тицы (genitive)
карака́тицы (nominative plural)
карака́тиц (genitive plural)
карака́тица (nominative singular)
карака́тицы (nominative plural)
карака́тицы (genitive singular)
карака́тиц (genitive plural)
карака́тице (dative singular)
карака́тицам (dative plural)
карака́тицу (accusative singular)
карака́тиц (accusative plural)
карака́тицей (instrumental singular)
карака́тицею (instrumental singular)
карака́тицами (instrumental plural)
карака́тице (prepositional singular)
карака́тицах (plural prepositional)

→ Romanian: caracatiță

Derived from Proto-Slavic *korkъ (“limb”) with the suffixes -атый (-atyj, “-provided”) and -ица (-ica, “feminine suffix”), thus roughly meaning the legged one. The form корока́тица (korokática) would thus be the etymologically correct one, but the most used one is карака́тица (karakática), influenced by кара- (kara-, “(from Turkish) black”).

ru:каракатица

cuttlefish (any of various squidlike mollusks)


hectocotylus

From New Latin, corresponding to hecto- + Ancient Greek κότυλος (kótulos, “small cup”).

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When not in use, the male's hectocotylus hides in a pouch, leaving him to go about his business with only seven arms.

2017, Danna Staaf, Squid Empire, ForeEdge, →ISBN, page 170:

The hectocotylus, like many other genitals, is made of soft tissues which are unlikely to be fossilised.

2018 January 24, Elsa Panciroli, The Guardian:

(zoology) A modified arm of any of several male cephalopods that functions as a reproductive organ by transferring sperm to the mantle of the female.


máthair shúigh

head

máthair shúigh f (genitive singular máthar súigh, nominative plural máithreacha súigh)

máthar súigh (genitive singular)
máithreacha súigh (nominative plural)
máthair shúigh
mháthair shúigh


scuid

scuid f (genitive singular scuide, nominative plural scuideanna)

scuide (genitive singular)
scuideanna (nominative plural)
nominative (indefinite)
scuid (indefinite singular)
scuideanna (indefinite plural)
vocative (indefinite)
a scuid (indefinite singular)
a scuideanna (indefinite plural)
genitive (indefinite)
scuide (indefinite singular)
dative (indefinite)
nominative (definite)
an scuid (definite singular)
na scuideanna (definite plural)
genitive (definite)
na scuide (definite singular)
dative (definite)
leis an scuid (definite singular)
don scuid (definite singular)
leis na scuideanna (definite plural)


ochtapas

ochtapas m (genitive singular ochtapais, nominative plural ochtapais)

ochtapais (genitive singular)
ochtapais (nominative plural)
nominative (indefinite)
ochtapas (indefinite singular)
ochtapais (indefinite plural)
vocative (indefinite)
a ochtapais (indefinite singular)
a ochtapasa (indefinite plural)
genitive (indefinite)
ochtapais (indefinite singular)
ochtapas (indefinite plural)
dative (indefinite)
nominative (definite)
an t-ochtapas (definite singular)
na hochtapais (definite plural)
genitive (definite)
an ochtapais (definite singular)
na n-ochtapas (definite plural)
dative (definite)
leis an ochtapas (definite singular)
don ochtapas (definite singular)
leis na hochtapais (definite plural)
ochtapas
n-ochtapas
hochtapas
t-ochtapas

Borrowed from English octopus, from Ancient Greek ὀκτώπους (oktṓpous), with influence from the native word ocht (“eight”).


nautilo

From Latin nautilus, from Ancient Greek ναυτίλος (nautílos, “nautilus, sailor”).


architeuthid

A giant squid, of the family Architeuthidae.


кальмар

kk-noun

кальмар • (kalmar)

kalmar (romanization)
кальмар (nominative singular)
кальмарлар (nominative plural)
кальмардың (genitive singular)
кальмарлардың (genitive plural)
кальмарға (dative singular)
кальмарларға (dative plural)
кальмарды (accusative singular)
кальмарларды (accusative plural)
кальмарда (locative singular)
кальмарларда (locative plural)
кальмардан (ablative singular)
кальмарлардан (ablative plural)
кальмармен (instrumental singular)
кальмарлармен (instrumental plural)

kk-decl-noun

кальмарлардың

кальмарларға

кальмарларды

кальмарларда

кальмарлардан

кальмарлармен

Borrowed from Russian кальма́р (kalʹmár), from French calmar.

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кальмар

ru-noun+

кальма́р • (kalʹmár) m anim (genitive кальма́ра, nominative plural кальма́ры, genitive plural кальма́ров)

кальма́р (canonical)
kalʹmár (romanization)
кальма́ра (genitive)
кальма́ры (nominative plural)
кальма́ров (genitive plural)
кальма́р (nominative singular)
кальма́ры (nominative plural)
кальма́ра (genitive singular)
кальма́ров (genitive plural)
кальма́ру (dative singular)
кальма́рам (dative plural)
кальма́ра (accusative singular)
кальма́ров (accusative plural)
кальма́ром (instrumental singular)
кальма́рами (instrumental plural)
кальма́ре (prepositional singular)
кальма́рах (plural prepositional)

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baculite

The shell of a baculite was quite simply straight—an unexpected throwback to the early days of cephalopods.

2017, Danna Staaf, Squid Empire, ForeEdge, →ISBN, page 89:

(paleontology) Any of the genus †Baculites of extinct cephalopod heteromorph ammonites.


popet

Vam entrar al Monumental a fer el vermut i menjar popets.

1962, Mercè Rodoreda, La plaça del diamant:

We went into the Monumental to have aperitifs and eat octopus.

The young of the curled octopus (Eledone cirrhosa) eaten as food.


nautiloid

en-adj

nautiloid (comparative more nautiloid, superlative most nautiloid)

more nautiloid (comparative)
most nautiloid (superlative)

(zoology) Resembling a nautilus; pertaining to the subclass Nautiloidea.


snakestone

en-noun

snakestone (countable and uncountable, plural snakestones)

(paleontology) An ammonite (because of its coiled form).


penfish

From pen + fish, since the squid's ink was formerly used for writing.


lituite

(paleontology) Any ammonite of the genus †Lituites, found in the Cretaceous formation.


spirula

Spirula spirula
Spirula spirula#Translingual

Any mollusk of the cephalopod genus Spirula, of which Spirula spirula is the only extant species.


spirula

spirula (nominative singular)
spirule (nominative plural)
spiruli (genitive singular)
spirul (genitive plural)
spiruli (dative singular)
spirulom (dative plural)
spirulę (accusative singular)
spirule (accusative plural)
spirulą (instrumental singular)
spirulami (instrumental plural)
spiruli (locative singular)
spirulach (locative plural)
spirulo (singular vocative)
spirule (plural vocative)

Internationalism; ultimately from Latin spīra.


turrilite

From Latin turris (“tower”) + -lite or directly from translingual †Turrilites.

(paleontology) Any fossil ammonite of the genus †Turrilites, the shell forming an open spiral with the later whorls separate.


sea devil

Lophius piscatorius
Lophius piscatorius#Translingual

An angler fish of species Lophius piscatorius


pourcuttle

Uncertain first element + cuttle. The OED takes the forms with con to be easy misreadings of the earlier-attested cou (compare e.g. ouarine, a misreading of ouariue), but says pour- "can hardly stand for an earlier poul-" as on poulpe, polyp (compare polwygle, porwiggle as variants of pollywog).

The fish called a Pourcontrell [translating poulpe], or Manie-feet, changeth himselfe into what colour he lists, as occasion offereth it selfe; that so he may hide himselfe from what he feareth, and catch what he seeketh for.

1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:

(obsolete) A cephalopod with tentacles; an octopus or cuttlefish.


cuttle

From Middle English cutil, codel, codul, from Old English cudele (“cuttlefish”), a diminutive from Proto-Germanic *kudilǭ, from Proto-Germanic *kuddô + -ilǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *gewt- (“pouch, sack”), from *gew- (“to bend, bow, arch, vault, curve”). Equivalent to cod + -le (diminutive suffix). Compare dialectal German Kudele (“cuttlefish”), Norwegian kaule (“cuttlefish”).


goniatite

Any member of the extinct Goniatitida, a taxonomic order of ammonites.


cefalópodo

From Ancient Greek κεφαλή (kephalḗ, “head”) + -podo, from translingual Cephalopoda, a class name.


actinoceratid

(zoology) Any of the extinct cephalopods in the family †Actinoceratidae.


adrianitid

(zoology) Any of the extinct ammonites in the family Adrianitidae.


amaltheid

(zoology) Any of the extinct ammonites in the family Amaltheidae.


xenoceltitid

(zoology) Any ammonite in the family Xenoceltitidae.


alloposid

(zoology) Any octopus in the monotypic family Alloposidae, which consists only of the seven-arm octopus, Haliphron atlanticus.


xenodiscid

(zoology) Any ammonite in the family Xenodiscidae.


amphitretid

(zoology) Any octopus in the family Amphitretidae.


acanthoceratid

(zoology) Any member of the Acanthoceratidae.


anisoceratid

(zoology) Any member of the family Anisoceratidae of extinct ammonite cephalopods.


ancyloceratid

(zoology) Any ammonite in the family Ancyloceratidae.


anthracoceratid

(zoology) Any of the extinct ammonids in the family Anthracoceratidae.


araxoceratid

(zoology) Any any of the extinct ammonites in the family Araxoceratidae.


arietitid

(zoology) Any of the extinct ammonites in the family Arietitidae.


argonautid

(zoology) Any member of the Argonautidae.


ascoceratid

(zoology) Any extinct cephalopod in the family Ascoceratidae


armenoceratid

(zoology) Any of the extinct cephalopods in the family Armenoceratidae.


aspidoceratid

(zoology) Any of the extinct ammonites in the family Aspidoceratidae.


baculitid

(zoology) Any of the extinct ammonites in the family Baculitidae.


baltoceratid

(zoology) Any of the extinct cephalopods in the family Baltoceratidae.


bathyteuthid

(zoology) Any of the deep ocean squids in the family Bathyteuthidae.


berriasellid

(zoology) Any ammonite in the family Berriasellidae, now considered to be the subfamily Berriasellinae of the Neocomitidae (as the Neocomitinae, the Neocomitidae was formerly considered to be a subfamily of the Berriasellidae).


bolitaenid

(zoology) Any octopus of the family Bolitaenidae.


belosaepiid

(zoology) Any member of the Belosaepiidae.


brachioteuthid

(zoology) Any squid of the family Brachioteuthidae.


brancoceratid

(zoology) Any of the extinct ammonites in the family Brancoceratidae.


centroceratid

(zoology) Any extinct cephalopod in the family Centroceratidae.


cheiloceratid

(zoology) Any Ammonite in the family Cheiloceratidae.


chiroteuthid

(zoology) Any squid in the family Chiroteuthidae.


cirroteuthid

(zoology) Any octopus in the family Cirroteuthidae.


clionitid

(zoology) Any ammonite in the family Clionitidae.


collignoniceratid

(zoology) Any ammonite in the family Collignoniceratidae.


coilopoceratid

(zoology) Any ammonite in the family Coilopoceratidae.


cravenoceratid

(zoology) Any ammonite in the family Cravenoceratidae.


cranchiid

(zoology) Any member of the family Cranchiidae.


cyclolobid

Any ammonite in the family Cyclolobidae.


cycloteuthid

(zoology) Any squid in the family Cycloteuthidae.


cymatoceratid

(zoology) Any extinct nautiloid cephalopod in the family Cymatoceratidae.


desmoceratid

(zoology) Any ammonite in the family Desmoceratidae.


dimeroceratid

(zoology) Any ammonite in the family Dimeroceratidae.


dimorphoceratid

(zoology) Any ammonite in the family Dimorphoceratidae.


daraelitid

(zoology) Any ammonite in the family Daraelitidae.


ellesmeroceratid

(zoology) Any extinct nautiloid cephalopod in the family Ellesmeroceratidae.


endoceratid

(zoology) Any extinct nautiloid cephalopod in the family Endoceratidae.


enoploteuthid

(zoology) Any squid in the family Enoploteuthidae.


engonoceratid

(zoology) Any ammonite in the family Engonoceratidae.


eutrephoceratid

(zoology) Any extinct nautiloid cephalopod in the family Eutrephoceratidae, often considered to be part of the Nautilidae.


gastrioceratid

(zoology) Any ammonite in the family Gastrioceratidae.


glaphyritid

(zoology) Any ammonite in the family Glaphyritidae.


gaudryceratid

(zoology) Any ammonite in the family Gaudryceratidae.


geisonoceratid

(zoology) Any extinct cephalopod in the family Geisonoceratidae.


goniatitid

/ˌɡəʊniəˈtaɪtɪd/

(zoology) Any ammonite in the family Goniatitidae.


gonatid

(zoology) Any member of the family Gonatidae of armhook squids.


gymnitid

(zoology) Any ammonite in the family Gymnitidae.


gonioloboceratid

(zoology) Any ammonite in the family Gonioloboceratidae.


grypoceratid

(zoology) Any extinct nautiloid cephalopod in the family Grypoceratidae.


haloritid

(zoology) Any ammonite in the family Haloritidae.


haploceratid

(zoology) Any ammonite in the family Haploceratidae.


hercoglossid

(zoology) Any extinct nautiloid cephalopod in the family Hercoglossidae.


hildoceratid

(zoology) Any ammonite in the family Hildoceratidae.


hoplitid

(zoology) Any ammonite in the family Hoplitidae.


homoceratid

(zoology) Any member of the family †Homoceratidae of extinct ammonites.


histioteuthid

(zoology) Any squid in the family Histioteuthidae.


idiosepiid

(zoology) Any in the family Idiosepiidae of cephalopods.


juraphyllitid

(zoology) Any ammonite in the family Juraphyllitidae.


lamellorthoceratid

(zoology) Any extinct cephalopod in the family Lamellorthoceratidae.


lepidoteuthid

(zoology) Any squid in the family Lepidoteuthidae.


lituitid

(zoology) Any in the family †Lituitidae of extinct cephalopods.


liparoceratid

(zoology) Any ammonite in the family Liparoceratidae.


liroceratid

(zoology) Any extinct nautiloid cephalopod in the family Liroceratidae.


loliginid

(zoology) Any squid in the family Loliginidae.


lycoteuthid

(zoology) Any squid in the family Lycoteuthidae.


lytoceratid

(paleontology) Any member of the family Lytoceratidae of ammonites.

(paleontology, dated) Any member of the order Lytoceratida (now the suborder Lytoceratina).


mastigoteuthid

(zoology) Any squid in the family Mastigoteuthidae.


marathonitid

(zoology) Any ammonite in the family Marathonitidae.


medlicottiid

(zoology) Any ammonite in the family Medlicottiidae.


michelinoceratid

(zoology) Any extinct cephalopod in the family Michelinoceratidae, a synonym of the Orthoceratidae.


nautilid

Nautilids puttered along from that day to this, growing slowly, building thick shells, and laying large yolky eggs.

2017, Danna Staaf, Squid Empire, ForeEdge, →ISBN, page 76:

(zoology) A cephalopod of the family Nautilidae.


neoteuthid

(zoology) Any squid in the family Neoteuthidae.


nostoceratid

(zoology) Any ammonite in the family Nostoceratidae.


octopodid

(zoology) Any octopus in the family Octopodidae.


octopoteuthid

(zoology) Any squid in the family Octopoteuthidae.


ommastrephid

(zoology) Any squid in the family Ommastrephidae.


onychoteuthid

(zoology) Any squid in the family Onychoteuthidae.


ophiceratid

(zoology) Any member of the family †Ophiceratidae of extinct ammonite cephalopods.


oncoceratid

(zoology) Any extinct nautiloid cephalopod in the family Oncoceratidae.


opisthoteuthid

(zoology) Any octopus in the family Opisthoteuthidae.


oxynoticeratid

(zoology) Any ammonite in the family Oxynoticeratidae.


orthoceratid

(zoology) Any extinct cephalopod in the family Orthoceratidae.


otoceratid

(zoology) Any ammonite in the family Otoceratidae.


otoitid

(zoology) Any ammonite in the family Otoitidae.


pachydiscid

(zoology) Any in the family Pachydiscidae of extinct ammonites.


parahoplitid

(zoology) Any ammonite in the family Parahoplitidae.


paragastrioceratid

(zoology) Any ammonite in the family Paragastrioceratidae.


perisphinctid

(zoology) Any ammonite in the family Perisphinctidae.


perrinitid

(zoology) Any ammonite in the family Perrinitidae.


phragmoceratid

(zoology) Any extinct nautiloid cephalopod in the family Phragmoceratidae.


phylloceratid

(zoology) Any ammonite in the family Phylloceratidae.


paraceltitid

(zoology) Any extinct cephalopod in the family Paraceltitidae.


piloceratid

(zoology) Any extinct nautiloid cephalopod in the family Piloceratidae.


placenticeratid

(zoology) Any ammonite in the family Placenticeratidae.


pericyclid

(zoology) Any ammonite in the family Pericyclidae.


popanoceratid

(zoology) Any ammonite in the family Popanoceratidae.


prionoceratid

(zoology) Any ammonite in the family Prionoceratidae.


prolobitid

(zoology) Any ammonite in the family Prolobitidae.


prodromitid

(zoology) Any ammonite in the family Prodromitidae.


proteoceratid

(zoology) Any extinct cephalopod in the family Proteoceratidae.


protocycloceratid

(zoology) Any extinct nautiloid cephalopod in the family Protocycloceratidae.


pseudohaloritid

(zoology) Any ammonite in the family Pseudohaloritidae.


pseudorthoceratid

(zoology) Any extinct cephalopod in the family Pseudorthoceratidae.


pseudotirolitid

(zoology) Any ammonite in the family Pseudotirolitidae.


psychroteuthid

(zoology) Any squid in the family Psychroteuthidae.


ptychitid

(zoology) Any ammonite in the family Ptychitidae.


pyroteuthid

(zoology) Any member of the Pyroteuthidae.


rutoceratid

(zoology) Any extinct nautiloid cephalopod in the family Rutoceratidae.


schloenbachiid

(zoology) Any ammonite in the family Schloenbachiidae.


ussuritid

(zoology) Any of the extinct ammonites in the family Ussuritidae.


vascoceratid

(zoology) Any ammonite in the family Vascoceratidae.


vampyroteuthid

(zoology) Any member of the family Vampyroteuthidae. the vampire squids.


sepiadariid

(zoology) Any cuttlefish in the family Sepiadariidae.


sepiid

(zoology) Any member of the family Sepiidae of certain cuttlefish.


shumarditid

(zoology) Any member of the †Shumarditidae, extinct shelled cephalopods.


spiroceratid

(zoology) Any extinct cephalopod in the family Spiroceratidae.


spirulid

There are a lot of fossil spirulids, though, enough to show us the probably evolution of the ram's horn coil.

2017, Danna Staaf, Squid Empire, ForeEdge, →ISBN, page 113:

(chiefly paleontology) A cephalopod of the order Spirulida, including the ram's horn squid.


stephanoceratid

(zoology) Any ammonite in the family Stephanoceratidae.


strigoceratid

(zoology) Any ammonite in the family Strigoceratidae.


tainoceratid

(zoology) Any in the family Tainoceratidae of extinct nautiloid cephalopods.


tarphyceratid

(zoology) Any extinct nautiloid cephalopod in the family Tarphyceratidae.


tetragonitid

(zoology) Any ammonite in the family Tetragonitidae.


thalassoceratid

(zoology) Any ammonite in the family Thalassoceratidae.


thysanoteuthid

(zoology) Any squid in the family Thysanoteuthidae.


tornoceratid

(zoology) Any ammonite in the family Tornoceratidae.


tissotiid

(zoology) Any ammonite in the family Tissotiidae.


trachyceratid

(zoology) Any extinct ammonite in the family Trachyceratidae.


tremoctopodid

(zoology) Any blanket octopus in the family Tremoctopodidae.


tropitid

(zoology) Any ammonite in the family Tropitidae.


trocholitid

From translingual Trocholitidae, from Trochilus.

(zoology) Any nautiloid cephalopod in the family Trocholitidae.


turrilitid

(zoology) Any member of the family Turrilitidae of ammonites.


pórpo

From Late Latin pulpus, from Latin polypus, from Ancient Greek πολύπους (polúpous, literally “many-footed”).

(zoology) octopus (shellless marine molluscs of the family Octopodidae)


oegopsid

(zoology) Any member of the squid order Oegopsida or suborder Oegopsina.


cornu ammonis

From Latin cornū Ammōnis (“Ammon's horn”). See ammonite.

(paleontology, obsolete) A fossil shell, curved like a ram's horn; an ammonite.


大王烏賊

ㄉㄚˋ ㄨㄤˊ ㄨ ㄗㄟˊ

/tä⁵¹ wɑŋ³⁵ u⁵⁵ t͡seɪ̯³⁵/

/tä⁵¹ wɑŋ³⁵ u⁵⁵ t͡seɪ̯³⁵/


大王烏賊

ja-noun

大(だい)王(おう)烏賊(いか) or 大王烏賊(ダイオウイカ) • (daiō ika) ^(←だいわういか (daiwau ika)?)

大王烏賊 (canonical)
大王烏賊 (canonical)
daiō ika (romanization)
daiwau ika (romanization)
だいわういか (hiragana historical)

From 大王 (daiō, “great king”) + 烏賊 (ika, “squid”).


belemnoid

(zoology) A member of the Belemnoidea, an extinct group of marine cephalopods.


calamary

From Latin calamus (“a reed pen”) (because of the ink emitted by squids).


sépie

sépie (nominative singular)
sépie (nominative plural)
sépie (genitive singular)
sépií (genitive plural)
sépii (dative singular)
sépiím (dative plural)
sépii (accusative singular)
sépie (accusative plural)
sépie (singular vocative)
sépie (plural vocative)
sépii (locative singular)
sépiích (locative plural)
sépií (instrumental singular)
sépiemi (instrumental plural)

cuttlefish (any of various squidlike mollusks)


myopsid

(zoology) Any squid of the order Myopsida or suborder Myopsina.


flying squid

en-noun

flying squid (plural flying squid or flying squids)

flying squid (plural)
flying squids (plural)

The Flying Fish or Cuttle Fish (Loligo Sp.)—Many different kinds of Loligo are called by sailors Flying Squid, from a habit they have of leaping from the water, and proceeding through the air to some distance in a horizontal direction, like flying fish.

1840, The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal, Volume 22, page 194:

Among the five different gillnet mesh sizes used by the Korean gillnet fishery, the 86 and 105 mm mesh were most commonly used for targeting on neon flying squid, Ommastrephes bartrami (Lesueur), in the North Pacific.

1993, Bulletin - International North Pacific Fisheries Commission, Volume 53, Issues 1-3, International North Pacific Fisheries Commission, page 45:

For flying squid, designated observers will measure the mantle lengths of 30 flying squid randomly sampled from a single observed section each day.

1994, Richard L. Wallace, editor, The Marine Mammal Commission Compendium of Selected Treaties... on Marine Resources, Wildlife, and the Environment, Volume III, page 3184:

Any of various species of the family Ommastrephidae with the ability to glide in air above the water.


teuthis

“[…] Compared with one another, the teuthis, or calamary, is long-shaped, and the sepia flat-shaped; and of the calamaries the so-called teuthus is much bigger than the teuthis; for teuthi have been found as much as five ells long.”

1862, Aristotle, translated by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, History of Animals:


squidling

'I had this idea 'Why, when you use the word "idea" do I suddenly feel like a squidling in a piranha pool?'

2005, Celeste Walters, Deception, page 313:

Ryan blinked and looked at the squidling. It flew up using its tentacles and drifted down onto Ryan's snout. It waved around a tentacle and formed a bubble that drifted away.

2010, A. J. Traxler, Echoes of the Shadows:

[...] I gingerly added a glob of crystalline jelly, and watched in awe as it slowly dissolved, quivering and squirming in the acid bath like a translucent squidling.

2010, Alan Bradley, The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag:


kalmaar

head

kalmaar (genitive kalmaari, partitive kalmaari)

kalmaari (genitive)
kalmaari (partitive)
kalmaar (nominative singular)
kalmaarid (nominative plural)
kalmaar (accusative nominative singular)
kalmaarid (accusative nominative plural)
kalmaari (accusative genitive singular)
kalmaarid (accusative genitive plural)
kalmaari (genitive singular)
kalmaaride (genitive plural)
kalmaari (partitive singular)
kalmaare (partitive plural)
kalmaarisid (partitive plural)
kalmaari (illative singular)
kalmaarisse (illative singular)
kalmaaridesse (illative plural)
kalmaaresse (illative plural)
kalmaaris (inessive singular)
kalmaarides (inessive plural)
kalmaares (inessive plural)
kalmaarist (elative singular)
kalmaaridest (elative plural)
kalmaarest (elative plural)
kalmaarile (allative singular)
kalmaaridele (allative plural)
kalmaarele (allative plural)
kalmaaril (adessive singular)
kalmaaridel (adessive plural)
kalmaarel (adessive plural)
kalmaarilt (ablative singular)
kalmaaridelt (ablative plural)
kalmaarelt (ablative plural)
kalmaariks (singular translative)
kalmaarideks (plural translative)
kalmaareks (plural translative)
kalmaarini (singular terminative)
kalmaarideni (plural terminative)
kalmaarina (essive singular)
kalmaaridena (essive plural)
kalmaarita (abessive singular)
kalmaarideta (abessive plural)
kalmaariga (comitative singular)
kalmaaridega (comitative plural)


mực

vi-noun

(classifier con (“squid”)) mực • (墨, 䘃, 𧞾)

con (classifier)
墨 (CJK)
䘃 (CJK)
𧞾 (CJK)

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 墨 (“ink”, SV: mặc). Doublet of mức. Cognate with Muong Bi mâc, Khmer មឹក (mɨk), Lao ໝຶກ (mưk), Thai หมึก (mʉ̀k).

der

SV: <i class="Latn mention" lang="vi">mặc</i>

vi-etym-sino

Short for dây mực (“line made by a carpenter's ink marker”).


鸚鵡貝

ja-noun

鸚(おう)鵡(む)貝(がい) or 鸚鵡貝(オウムガイ) • (ōmugai) ^(←あうむがひ (aumugafi) or オウムガヒ (oumugafi)?)

鸚鵡貝 (canonical)
鸚鵡貝 (canonical)
ōmugai (romanization)
aumugafi (romanization)
oumugafi (romanization)
あうむがひ (hiragana historical)
オウムガヒ (hiragana historical)

[o̞ːmɯ̟ɡa̠i]

From 鸚鵡 (ōmu, “cockatoo”) + 貝 (kai, “shellfish”). Compare Chinese 鸚鵡螺 /鹦鹉螺 (yīngwǔluó), Korean 앵무조개 (aengmujogae), Vietnamese ốc anh vũ.


cranchid

Any glass squid of the family Cranchiidae.


glass squid

en-noun

glass squid (plural glass squids or glass squid)

glass squids (plural)
glass squid (plural)

Any transparent squid of the family Cranchiidae


اختاپوس

head

اختاپوس • (oxtâpus) (plural اختاپوسها (oxtâpus-hâ))

oxtâpus (romanization)
اختاپوسها (plural)

[ʔʊx.t̪ʰɑː.pʰúːs]

[ʔʊx.t̪ʰɑː.pʰúːs]

[ʔʊx.t̪ʰɑː.pʰúːs]

Ultimately from Ancient Greek ὀκτώπους (oktṓpous).

octopus (any of several marine molluscs of the family Octopodidae)


هشت‌پا

هشتپا • (hašt-pâ) (plural هشتپاها (hašt-pâ-hâ))

هشتپا (canonical)
hašt-pâ (romanization)
هشتپاها (plural)

[häʃt̪.pʰɑ́ː]

[häʃt̪.pʰɑ́ː]

[ʔäʃt̪.pʰɑ́ː]

[ʔäʃt̪.pʰɔ́ː]

[hæʃt̪.pʰɒ́ː]

[häʃt̪.pʰɔ́]


문어

Etymology unclear. Possibly from 민 (min-, “bare; unadorned”, prefix) + 어(魚) (eo, “fish”, Sino-Korean morpheme). Later transliterated to 文魚 (literally “literary fish”).


cefalópode

cephalopod (any mollusc of the class Cephalopoda)


אָקטאָפּוס

head

אָקטאָפּוס • (oktopus) m

yi-noun

אָקטאָפּוס • (oktopus) m


טינטפֿיש

טינטפֿיש • (tintfish) m, plural טינטפֿיש (tintfish)

From טינט (tint) + פֿיש (fish). Compare German Tintenfisch.


nukos

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kanuqus. Compare with Tausug kanuus, Bikol Central kanuos.


kugita

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kuʀita, from Proto-Austronesian *guʀiCa. Cognate with , Malay kurita, Ilocano kurita, Javanese gurita, Fijian kuita, Marshallese kweet.

an octopus that is bigger than a tabugok


architeuthis

Architeuthis, lean and fast, / Show us your sublime buccal mass!

2007, Toren Atkinson (lyrics), “Chapter I: A Marine Biologist” in The Shadow Out of Tim

It is located within an immense, highly guarded building that also houses Mars meteorite ALH-84001 and an architeuthis (a k a giant squid).

2009 September 14, Janet Maslin, “Fasten Your Seat Belts, There’s Code to Crack”, in New York Times:


neoammonite

Any ammonite (Ammonoidea) of the Jurassic period, descended from Psiloceras, the sole surviving ammonite genus of the Triassic–Jurassic extinction event.


calamar gigante

es-noun

calamar gigante m (plural calamares gigantes)


dogiga

From Gilbertese te (absolute article) + kika (“large octopus”).


豹紋蛸

ja-noun

豹(ひょう)紋(もん)蛸(だこ) or 豹紋蛸(ヒョウモンダコ) • (hyōmondako)

豹紋蛸 (canonical)
豹紋蛸 (canonical)
hyōmondako (romanization)

豹 (hyō, “leopard”) + 紋 (mon, “crest; medallion”) + 蛸 (tako, “octopus”)

com

blue-ringed octopus
blue-ringed octopus#English


łodzik

łodzik (nominative singular)
łodziki (nominative plural)
łodzika (genitive singular)
łodzików (genitive plural)
łodzikowi (dative singular)
łodzikom (dative plural)
łodzik (accusative singular)
łodziki (accusative plural)
łodzikiem (instrumental singular)
łodzikami (instrumental plural)
łodziku (locative singular)
łodzikach (locative plural)
łodziku (singular vocative)
łodziki (plural vocative)


mątwa

mątewka (diminutive)
mątwa (nominative singular)
mątwy (nominative plural)
mątwy (genitive singular)
mątw (genitive plural)
mątwie (dative singular)
mątwom (dative plural)
mątwę (accusative singular)
mątwy (accusative plural)
mątwą (instrumental singular)
mątwami (instrumental plural)
mątwie (locative singular)
mątwach (locative plural)
mątwo (singular vocative)
mątwy (plural vocative)


preke

Describing also what he calls the Preke or Poulps, Polypus. 'Tis, he says, a naked Fish, having eight Fingers or Arms, spread out almost like the Rays of a Star-Fish, and the Mouth in a Manner in the Middle of them.

1743, Henry Baker, An Attempt Towards a Natural History of the Polype:

A climbing fish was known to the Greeks; but though mentioned by Oppian, in about twenty different parts of his "Halieuticks," and most curious qualities attributed to it, we do not correctly know this fish, the preke: "he has eight long legs or fibres, four on each side of his head, which serve him to crawl, cling to the rocks, and entangle his prey."

1858, William Wright, Fishes and fishing:

(obsolete) An octopus or similar marine organism, such as a cuttlefish or squid.


canana

Perhaps a variant of dialectal canada, from cana, archaic form of canya (“reed, cane”).

European flying squid (Todarodes sagittatus)


bactritoid

Any of the order †Bactritida of extinct cephalopods.


microconch

en-noun

microconch (plural microconchs or microconches)

microconchs (plural)
microconches (plural)

The male form of an ammonite (that has a smaller shell than the female (the macroconch).


macroconch

macroconch (plural macroconchs or macroconches)

macroconchs (plural)
macroconches (plural)

Initially, the apophysis follows the coiling of the shell but it projects ventrolaterally during the final ontogenetic stage of macroconch development.

2016 January 14, “Paleobiology of the Latest Tithonian (Late Jurassic) Ammonite Salinites grossicostatum Inferred from Internal and External Shell Parameters”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

A few collections of ammonoid eggs have even been found inside macroconchs, which is tempting to interpret as brooding behavior and further support for calling macroconchs female.

2017, Danna Staaf, Squid Empire, ForeEdge, →ISBN, page 59:

The female form of an ammonite (that has a larger shell than the male (the microconch).


psiloceratacean

Many British stratigraphers have historically used the first occurrence of the ammonite Psiloceras planorbis to indicate the base of the Jurassic, but elsewhere in Europe two other psiloceratacean ammonites appear before P.

2016 January 21, “The Oldest Jurassic Dinosaur: A Basal Neotheropod from the Hettangian of Great Britain”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

Any ammonoid cephalopod of the superfamily Psilocerataceae.


vampire squid

The Vampire squid – which is actually an octopodiform and not a squid, and looks like an apparition from an impossibly ancient dream – is harmless to humans.

2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 229:

A small deep-sea cephalopod, Vampyroteuthis infernalis, sole species of its order, found in temperate and tropical oceans.


twyllwr du

twyllwyr duon (plural)
twyllwr du
dwyllwr du (soft)
nhwyllwr du
thwyllwr du

/ˌtʊɨ̯ɬʊr ˈdɨː/

/ˌtʊi̯ɬʊr ˈdiː/

From twyllwr (“deceiver”) + du (“black”).


ystifflog

ystiflogod (plural)
ystifflog
hystifflog (prothesis-h)


môr-lawes

môr-lewys (plural)
môr-lawes
fôr-lawes (soft)


pibwr inc

pibwyr inc (plural)
pibwr inc
bibwr inc (soft)
mhibwr inc
phibwr inc

/ˌpɪbʊˈrɪŋk/

/ˌpɪbʊˈrɪŋk/


حبار

ar-noun

حَبَّار • (ḥabbār) m

حَبَّار (canonical)
ḥabbār (romanization)
حَبَّار (indefinite informal singular triptote)
الْحَبَّار (definite informal singular triptote)
حَبَّار (construct informal singular triptote)
حَبَّارٌ (indefinite nominative singular triptote)
الْحَبَّارُ (definite nominative singular triptote)
حَبَّارُ (construct nominative singular triptote)
حَبَّارًا (accusative indefinite singular triptote)
الْحَبَّارَ (accusative definite singular triptote)
حَبَّارَ (accusative construct singular triptote)
حَبَّارٍ (genitive indefinite singular triptote)
الْحَبَّارِ (definite genitive singular triptote)
حَبَّارِ (construct genitive singular triptote)

الْحَبَّارُ ٱلْعِمْلَاقُ


common squid

From common + squid, being the commonly found squid in European waters, thus common to the lands where the English language originated, and the stereotypical squid.

Loligo vulgaris
Loligo vulgaris#Translingual

Squid of two species in the family Loliginidae, common in coastal waters of the eastern Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea:


giant octopus

en-noun

giant octopus (plural giant octopuses or giant octopi)

giant octopuses (plural)
giant octopi (plural)

A mythical or fictional large sea creature with features of an octopus

(informal) Synonym of Kraken (Norse sea monster)

(informal) Synonym of Cthulhu (Lovecraftian horror monster)

One of certain large sea creatures of the order Octopoda

Haliphron atlanticus (giant Atlantic octopus)

giant Pacific octopus
giant Pacific octopus

especially, Enteroctopus dofleini (giant Pacific octopus)


common octopus

common octopus (plural common octopuses or common octopi)

common octopuses (plural)
common octopi (plural)

From common + octopus, being the stereotypical octopus, most commonly thought of form of octopus in English-language media, and most commonly studied octopus in science.

An octopus common to coastal waters worldwide, Octopus vulgaris


coconut octopus

coconut octopus (plural coconut octopuses or coconut octopi)

coconut octopuses (plural)
coconut octopi (plural)

From coconut + octopus from the propensity of this octopus to live in coconut shells.

Coconut octopuses can make themselves look like coconuts even without the visual aid, by gathering most of their arms around their body to make a rough sphere.

2017, Danna Staaf, Squid Empire, ForeEdge, →ISBN, page 176:

A tropical species of octopus, Amphioctopus marginatus.


大王酸漿烏賊

ja-noun

だいおう ほうずき いか

ダイオウ ホウズキ イカ

大(だい)王(おう)酸漿(ほうずき)烏賊(いか) or 大王酸漿烏賊(ダイオウホウズキイカ) • (daiō hōzuki ika)

大王酸漿烏賊 (canonical)
大王酸漿烏賊 (canonical)
daiō hōzuki ika (romanization)

大王 (daiō, “great king”) + 酸漿 (hōzuki, “Japanese lantern”) + 烏賊 (ika, “squid”)

af

ja:ダイオウホウズキイカ


oliganj

олигањ (Cyrillic)
oliganj (nominative singular)
olignji (nominative plural)
olignja (genitive singular)
olignja (genitive plural)
olignju (dative singular)
olignjima (dative plural)
oliganj (accusative singular)
olignje (accusative plural)
olignju (singular vocative)
olignji (plural vocative)
olignju (locative singular)
olignjima (locative plural)
olignjem (instrumental singular)
olignjima (instrumental plural)

From Latin lōlīgō (“squid, cuttlefish”).


甲烏賊

ja-noun

甲(こう)烏賊(いか) • (kōika) ^(←かふいか (kafuika)?)

甲烏賊 (canonical)
kōika (romanization)
kafuika (romanization)
かふいか (hiragana historical)

From 甲 (kō, “shell”) + 烏賊 (ika, “squid”).


seta'su

head

seta'su anim (plural seta'sug, obviative seta'sul)


pearly nautilus

en-noun

pearly nautilus (plural pearly nautiluses or pearly nautili)

pearly nautiluses (plural)
pearly nautili (plural)

The chambered nautilus, Nautilus pompilius.


cudele

cudelan (nominative plural)
cudele (nominative singular)
cudelan (nominative plural)
cudelan (accusative singular)
cudelan (accusative plural)
cudelan (genitive singular)
cudelena (genitive plural)
cudelan (dative singular)
cudelum (dative plural)

desc

Middle English: codulle, codel, codul, cotul, cutyl, cothell

English: cuttle

⇒ English: cuttlefish

From Proto-West Germanic *kudulā, from Proto-Germanic *kudilǭ, a diminutive from Proto-Germanic *kuddô + -ilǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *gewt- (“pouch, sack”), from *gew- (“to bend, bow, arch, vault, curve”). Equivalent to codd + -el.


Humboldt squid

Dosidicus gigas, a large squid living in the waters of the Humboldt Current in the eastern Pacific Ocean.

перуа́нско-чили́йский гига́нтский кальма́р


kałamarnica

kałamarnica (nominative singular)
kałamarnice (nominative plural)
kałamarnicy (genitive singular)
kałamarnic (genitive plural)
kałamarnicy (dative singular)
kałamarnicom (dative plural)
kałamarnicę (accusative singular)
kałamarnice (accusative plural)
kałamarnicą (instrumental singular)
kałamarnicami (instrumental plural)
kałamarnicy (locative singular)
kałamarnicach (locative plural)
kałamarnico (singular vocative)
kałamarnice (plural vocative)


dalupapa

diamondback squid (Thysanoteuthis rhombus)


bukobuko

Reduplication of buko (“node of a stem”)

redup

(anatomy) the back of a person or animal

(especially) the upper back, opposite the chest

the back of a person or animal
the upper back, opposite the chest


八爪魚

/pä⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂu̯ä²¹⁴⁻²¹ y³⁵/

/paːt̚³ t͡saːu̯³⁵ jyː²¹/

/pat̚³³ t͡sau⁵⁵ ᵑɡui²¹⁻²¹⁵/

/pä⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂu̯ä²¹⁴⁻²¹ y³⁵/

/paːt̚³ t͡saːu̯³⁵ jyː²¹/

/pat̚³³ t͡sau⁵⁵ ᵑɡui²¹⁻²¹⁵/

Referring to the animal's eight arms. Compare Ancient Greek ὀκτώπους (oktṓpous) ( < ὀκτώ (oktṓ, “eight”) + πούς (poús, “foot”)).


תמנון

he-noun

תְּמָנוּנִים

תְּמָנוּן • (tmanún) m (plural indefinite תְּמָנוּנִים, singular construct תְּמָנוּן־, plural construct תְּמָנוּנֵי־)

תְּמָנוּן (canonical)
tmanún (romanization)
תְּמָנוּנִים (indefinite plural)
תְּמָנוּן־ (construct singular)
תְּמָנוּנֵי־ (construct plural)

A blend of the Aramaic words תְּמַנְיָא (tmanya, “eight”) and נון (nun, “fish”).

(countable) octopus (any of several marine molluscs of the family Octopodidae, having no internal or external protective shell or bone (unlike the nautilus, squid and cuttlefish) and eight arms each covered with suckers)


槍烏賊

/t͡ɕʰi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵ u⁵⁵ t͡seɪ̯³⁵/

/t͡sʰœːŋ⁵⁵ wuː⁵⁵ t͡sʰaːk̚²/

/t͡ɕʰi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵ u⁵⁵ t͡seɪ̯³⁵/

/t͡sʰœːŋ⁵⁵ wuː⁵⁵ t͡sʰaːk̚²/


槍烏賊

ja-noun

槍(やり)烏賊(いか) or 槍烏賊(ヤリイカ) • (yarīka)

槍烏賊 (canonical)
槍烏賊 (canonical)
yarīka (romanization)

槍(やり) (yari, “spear”) + 烏賊(いか) (ika, “squid”)


lumayagan

purpleback flying squid (Sthenoteuthis oualaniensis)


virgatosphinctin

Any ammonite of the genus Virgatosphinctes


pulpus

la-noun

pulpus m (genitive pulpī); second declension

pulpī (genitive)
pulpus (nominative singular)
pulpī (nominative plural)
pulpī (genitive singular)
pulpōrum (genitive plural)
pulpō (dative singular)
pulpīs (dative plural)
pulpum (accusative singular)
pulpōs (accusative plural)
pulpō (ablative singular)
pulpīs (ablative plural)
pulpe (singular vocative)
pulpī (plural vocative)

Italian: polpo

Ligurian: pórpo

Sicilian: purpu


cadoceratid

Any fossil ammonite of the family Cardioceratidae


cardioceratid

Any ammonite in the family Cardioceratidae.


echioceratid

Any ammonite of the family Echioceratidae of serpenticone ammonites.


heke

From Proto-Polynesian *feke. Cognates include Hawaiian heʻe and Maori wheke.


鯣烏賊

ja-noun

鯣(するめ)烏賊(いか) or 鯣烏賊(スルメイカ) • (surume ika or surumeika)

鯣烏賊 (canonical)
鯣烏賊 (canonical)
surume ika (romanization)
surumeika (romanization)

Compound of 鯣 (surume, “squid used for drying”) + 烏賊 (ika, “squid”).
After the sense of 鯣 (surume) shifted from "type of squid used for drying" to refer more to the end product in the early 1300s, this term surume ika arose to refer unambiguously to the squid rather than the product. First attested in 1787.

compound

a Japanese flying squid (Todarodes pacificus)

Japanese flying squid
Nihon Kokugo Daijiten
ja:スルメイカ


pencil squid

en-noun

pencil squid (plural pencil squid or pencil squids)

pencil squid (plural)
pencil squids (plural)

Any of various species of squid in the taxonomic family Loliginidae.


reef squid

reef squid (plural reef squid or reef squids)

reef squid (plural)
reef squids (plural)

Any of various species in the genus Sepioteuthis of squid with large, rounded fins, resembling cuttlefish.


oval squid

oval squid (plural oval squid or oval squids)

oval squid (plural)
oval squids (plural)

Sepioteuthis lessoniana
Sepioteuthis lessoniana#Translingual

A type of squid with large, rounded fins resembling a cuttlefish, Sepioteuthis lessoniana.


giant Pacific octopus

giant Pacific octopus (plural giant Pacific octopuses)

They range from less than an inch in length to the giant Pacific octopus, which weighs in at 100 pounds and spans twenty feet from arm tip to arm tip.

2016, Peter Godfrey-Smith, Other Minds, William Collins, published 2018, page 47:

Giant Pacific octopuses are semelparous, meaning they reproduce only once.

2018 April 29, Killian Fox, The Observer:

A large species of octopus, Enteroctopus dofleini.


អដ្ឋករ

km-noun

អដ្ឋករ • (ʼatthaʼkɑɑ)

From Pali aṭṭha (“eight”) + kara (“hand”).


រពីងសមុទ្រ

រពីងសមុទ្រ • (rɔɔrɔpiing saʼmot)


dumbo octopus

From their resemblance to the title character of the 1941 Disney film Dumbo.

This specimen does not possess tentacles but does have clear fins leading to speculation that it may be related to deep sea species such as today’s dumbo octopuses or alternatively, this is a member of the vampire squid group, Vampyromorphida.

2016 August 17, Mark Carnall, The Guardian:

Any of several species of umbrella octopuses of the genus Grimpoteuthis.


ram's horn squid

en-noun

ram's horn squid (plural ram's horn squids)

In many groups [the ink sac] is reduced or vestigial including the ram’s horn squid and in some species of blue-ringed octopus.

2017 August 9, Mark Carnall, The Guardian:

A squid-like cephalopod of species Spirula spirula, the only extant member of its taxonomic order, found in the deep ocean.


blanket octopus

blanket octopus (plural blanket octopuses)

One species, the Blanket octopus, has the most extreme divergence in size between the two sexes in a single species of any animal: females weigh 10,000 times as much as males.

Blanket octopuses appear to be immune or resistant to Portugese^([sic]) man 'o' war stings and have even been observed wielding the stinging tentacles they’ve detached as a weapon.

2018 March 27, Mark Carnall, The Guardian:

Any of four species of pelagic octopus of the genus Tremoctopus, found in tropical and subtropical oceans.


vampyromorph

If Tusoteuthis is a vampyromorph, then it really is giant compared to the sole living species, the vampire squid (from hell), which reaches a total maximum size of 30cm.

2017 October 31, Mark Carnall, The Guardian:

A cephalopod belonging to the taxonomic order Vampyromorphida, of which the vampire squid is the only surviving species.


phragmoteuthid

From scientific Latin Phragmoteuthida (order name).

Multiple jaws and arm hooklets of squid-like phragmoteuthids are known from the stomach area of several ichthyosaurs.

2012, Winand Brinkmann, Kenneth De Baets, editors, Paleontological Museum of the University of Zürich: Exhibition Guide, Paleontological Institute and Museum of the University of Zürich, →ISBN, page 70:

(paleontology) An extinct cephalopod of the order Phragmoteuthida.


oxycone

The quickest and nimblest were probably the oxycones, throwing themselves through the water like discuses.

2017, Danna Staaf, Squid Empire, ForeEdge, →ISBN, page 87:

(paleontology, malacology) A type of ammonoid with a slim, disk-shaped (oxyconic) shell.


scaphite

Landman concluded that scaphites probably didn't have muscular arms or a strong siphon. They didn't need them […].

2017, Danna Staaf, Squid Empire, ForeEdge, →ISBN, page 94:

An extinct ammonoid of the genus Scaphites.


vampyropod

[T]he ultimate question is whether belemnoids and decapods are sister groups, or whether belemnoids and vampyropods are sister groups.

1999, Federico Olóriz, Francisco J. Rodríguez-Tovar, editors, Advancing Research on Living and Fossil Cephalopods, Springer Science+Business Media, page 10:

Ancestral vampyropods diverged from the ancestors of squid way back in the Triassic.

2017, Danna Staaf, Squid Empire, ForeEdge, →ISBN, page 119:

(rare) A member of the proposed group Vampyropoda (equivalent to the superorder Octopodiformes), comprising vampire squid and octopuses; an octopodiform.


octopodiform

The buccal crown is present in most decapodiforms but absent from all octopodiforms.

2002, Kent E. Carpenter, Living marine resources of the Western Central Atlantic, volume 1, page 153:

2013, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, page 229:

A cephalopod of the superorder Octopodiformes, comprising octopuses and vampire squid.


sepioid

As hinted at by the pygmy's glue gland, sepioids house some of the flat-out weirdest members of the modern cephalopod family.

2017, Danna Staaf, Squid Empire, ForeEdge, →ISBN, page 174:

A member of a clade of cephalopods including the cuttlefish and related species, typically held to include bottletail squid, bobtail squid and pygmy squid.


pygmy squid

Pygmy squid spend most of their lives stuck to blades of seaweed with an absolutely fantastic little glue gland.

2017, Danna Staaf, Squid Empire, ForeEdge, →ISBN, page 173:

A cephalopod of the family Idiosepiidae, including the northern pygmy squid (Idiosepius paradoxus) and the southern pygmy squid (Xipholeptos notoides).


flamboyant cuttlefish

flamboyant cuttlefish (plural flamboyant cuttlefish or flamboyant cuttlefishes)

flamboyant cuttlefish (plural)
flamboyant cuttlefishes (plural)

The flamboyant cuttlefishes (genus Metasepia) can flash contrasting patches of yellow, white, dark brown and red.

2000, Mark Norman, Cephalopods, a World Guide: Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean, Red Sea, Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean, Arctic, Antarctic, Hackenheim: ConchBooks, →ISBN, page 314:

Flamboyant Cuttlefishes and Nudibranchs

2009, Matthias Bergbauer, Robert F. Myers, Manuela Kirschner, Dangerous Marine Animals: Mediterranean, Caribbean, Indo-Pacific, London: A & C Black, →ISBN, page 333:

Like brightly striped caterpillars and spiders, the flamboyant cuttlefish is warning potential predators of its toxic nature.

2017, Danna Staaf, Squid Empire, ForeEdge, →ISBN, page 175:

When disturbed, flamboyant cuttlefishes exhibit bright warning colors.

2018, Roger Hanlon, Mike Vecchione, Louise Allcock, Octopus, Squid, and Cuttlefish: A Visual, Scientific Guide to the Oceans’ Most Advanced Invertebrates, Chicago, Ill.: The University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 96:

A brightly-coloured species of cuttlefish, Metasepia pfefferi, found in tropical Indo-Pacific waters.


アンモナイト

2000 January 27, “アンモ・ナイト [Ammo-Knight]”, in Vol.7, Konami:

An ammonite knight who has defended the sea from invaders since time immemorial.

大昔から海を外敵から守っている、アンモナイトの戦士。

Ōmukashi kara umi o gaiteki kara mamotte iru, anmonaito no senshi.


głowonóg

głowonóg (nominative singular)
głowonogi (nominative plural)
głowonoga (genitive singular)
głowonogów (genitive plural)
głowonogowi (dative singular)
głowonogom (dative plural)
głowonoga (accusative singular)
głowonogi (accusative plural)
głowonogiem (instrumental singular)
głowonogami (instrumental plural)
głowonogu (locative singular)
głowonogach (locative plural)
głowonogu (singular vocative)
głowonogi (plural vocative)


mimic octopus

The Mimic octopus, which was only discovered in 2005 in shallow Indonesian waters, can rapidly morph its body to resemble a flounder, a sea snake, a lionfish and almost anything else it sees.

2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 229:

An Indo-Pacific octopus of species Thaumoctopus mimicus, capable of selectively impersonating several other species of marine life.


orthocerid

(zoology) a cephalopod of the extinct order Orthocerida.


gloomy octopus

gloomy octopus (plural gloomy octopuses)

The Australian octopus Octopus tetricus.


سبيدج

ar-noun

سَبِّيدَج • (sabbīdaj) m

سَبِّيدَج (canonical)
sabbīdaj (romanization)
سَبِّيدَج (indefinite informal singular triptote)
السَّبِّيدَج (definite informal singular triptote)
سَبِّيدَج (construct informal singular triptote)
سَبِّيدَجٌ (indefinite nominative singular triptote)
السَّبِّيدَجُ (definite nominative singular triptote)
سَبِّيدَجُ (construct nominative singular triptote)
سَبِّيدَجًا (accusative indefinite singular triptote)
السَّبِّيدَجَ (accusative definite singular triptote)
سَبِّيدَجَ (accusative construct singular triptote)
سَبِّيدَجٍ (genitive indefinite singular triptote)
السَّبِّيدَجِ (definite genitive singular triptote)
سَبِّيدَجِ (construct genitive singular triptote)

Since, often, calamar on a plate or in its natural habitat appears white, it is probably the same word as سِبِيدَاج (sibīdāj, “white lead”). Compare the repurposing of كَرْكَنْد (karkand, “ruby spinel”) for “lobster”.


qlita

From Proto-Austronesian *guʀiCa (“octopus”). Compare also Paiwan guritsa, Malay kurita, Javanese gurita, Ilocano kurita, Cebuano kugita, Malagasy horita, Marshallese kweet, Fijian kuita.


lagang

the chambered nautilus (Nautilus pompilius)


ốc anh vũ

[ʔəwk͡p̚˧˦ ʔajŋ̟˧˧ vu˦ˀ˥]

[ʔəwk͡p̚˦˧˥ ʔɛɲ˧˧ vʊw˧˨]

[ʔəwk͡p̚˦˥ ʔan˧˧ vʊw˨˩˦]

[ʔəwk͡p̚˦˥ ʔan˧˧ jʊw˨˩˦]


ammonitid

(paleontology) Any ammonite of the order Ammonitida.


σηπία

grc-noun

σηπίᾱ • (sēpíā) f (genitive σηπίᾱς); first declension

σηπίᾱ (canonical)
sēpíā (romanization)
σηπίᾱς (genitive)
ἡ σηπίᾱ (nominative singular)
τὼ σηπίᾱ (dual nominative)
αἱ σηπίαι (nominative plural)
τῆς σηπίᾱς (genitive singular)
τοῖν σηπίαιν (dual genitive)
τῶν σηπιῶν (genitive plural)
τῇ σηπίᾳ (dative singular)
τοῖν σηπίαιν (dative dual)
ταῖς σηπίαις (dative plural)
τὴν σηπίᾱν (accusative singular)
τὼ σηπίᾱ (accusative dual)
τᾱ̀ς σηπίᾱς (accusative plural)
σηπίᾱ (singular vocative)
σηπίᾱ (dual vocative)
σηπίαι (plural vocative)

Greek: σουπιά (soupiá)

Latin: sepia

A connection with σήπω (sḗpō, “to rot”) is semantically possible but formally problematic. However, it may be more likely that the word is of Pre-Greek origin.


decabrachian

Any cephalopod of the suborder Decabrachia


انکاس

head

انکاس • (enkâs)

fa-noun

انکاس • (enkâs)

[ʔɪŋ.kʰɑ́ːs]

[ʔɪŋ.kʰɑ́ːs]

[ʔɪŋ.kʰɑ́ːs]

[ʔiŋ.kʰɔ́ːs]

[ʔeŋ.kʰɒ́ːs]

Probably from Ancient Greek ἔγκαυστον (énkauston).


blue-ringed octopus

en-noun

blue-ringed octopus (plural blue-ringed octopuses or blue-ringed octopodes or blue-ringed octopi)

blue-ringed octopuses (plural)
blue-ringed octopodes (plural)
blue-ringed octopi (plural)

From blue + ring + octopus.
From being an octopus with very prominent bright blue rings all over its body.

Any octopus of the genus Hapalochlaena, with distinctive blue rings, that carry the highly poisonous venom tetrodotoxin (TTX).


ὄζαινα

grc-noun

ὄζαινᾰ • (ózaină) f (genitive ὀζαίνης); first declension

ὄζαινᾰ (canonical)
ózaină (romanization)
ὀζαίνης (genitive)
ἡ ὄζαινᾰ (nominative singular)
τὼ ὀζαίνᾱ (dual nominative)
αἱ ὄζαιναι (nominative plural)
τῆς ὀζαίνης (genitive singular)
τοῖν ὀζαίναιν (dual genitive)
τῶν ὀζαινῶν (genitive plural)
τῇ ὀζαίνῃ (dative singular)
τοῖν ὀζαίναιν (dative dual)
ταῖς ὀζαίναις (dative plural)
τὴν ὄζαινᾰν (accusative singular)
τὼ ὀζαίνᾱ (accusative dual)
τᾱ̀ς ὀζαίνᾱς (accusative plural)
ὄζαινᾰ (singular vocative)
ὀζαίνᾱ (dual vocative)
ὄζαιναι (plural vocative)

→ Latin: ozaena

From ὄζω (ózō, “to smell”) + -αινᾰ (-aină).

(pathology) ozaena, a type of chronic rhinitis


មឹក

From Chinese 墨 (OC *mlɯːɡ, “ink”). Cognate with Thai หมึก (mʉ̀k), Lao ຫມຶກ (mưk), Vietnamese mực.

ត្រី ត្រី#Khmer


European squid

Loligo vulgaris (common squid), found in the Mediterranean and the eastern Atlantic.


tamala

an octopus that is smaller than a tabugok