cuttlefish

noun

cut·tle·fish | \ ˈkə-tᵊl-ˌfish

Definition of cuttlefish

: any of various marine cephalopod mollusks (order Sepioidea, especially genus Sepia) having eight short arms and two usually longer tentacles and differing from the related squid in having a calcified internal shell

Examples of cuttlefish in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Lorcan has the best find of the day: a cuttlefish bone smoothed by the sea, silk-soft. — Longreads, "‘The Fledglings Are Out!’," 4 May 2021 Iglesias says cuttlefish dreams may be even shorter. — Sara Harrison, Wired, "What Octopus Dreams Tell Us About the Evolution of Sleep," 16 Apr. 2021 Then in 2019, the state was described in cuttlefish, and this March, a team of scientists in Brazil published a paper in iScience identifying it in octopuses. — Sara Harrison, Wired, "What Octopus Dreams Tell Us About the Evolution of Sleep," 16 Apr. 2021 Future studies could puzzle out the evolutionary benefit of patience in cuttlefish. — Theresa Machemer, Smithsonian Magazine, "Cuttlefish Show Impressive Ability to Exert Self-Control," 4 Mar. 2021 Spectators recorded videos of the animals hunting for cuttlefish near St. Mark’s Square. — Theresa Machemer, Smithsonian Magazine, "Dolphins Spotted in Venice’s Grand Canal—For Real This Time," 5 Apr. 2021 The idea for the study arose because previous work has shown that cuttlefish can remember past events. — Sara Tabin, Forbes, "Cuttlefish Can Pass The Famed ‘Marshmallow Test,’ Study Finds," 9 Mar. 2021 The longest that a cuttlefish waited was 130 seconds. — Theresa Machemer, Smithsonian Magazine, "Cuttlefish Show Impressive Ability to Exert Self-Control," 4 Mar. 2021 Our lineage split from that of cephalopods—the spineless class that includes octopuses, squids and cuttlefish—half a billion years ago. — Rachel Nuwer, Scientific American, "An Octopus Could Be the Next Model Organism," 24 Feb. 2021

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