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Squid

noun

(Italian cuisine) squid prepared as food. Synonyms: calamari, calamary.

Widely distributed fast-moving ten-armed cephalopod mollusk having a long tapered body with triangular tail fins.

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"Squid" Quotes from Famous Books

... a delicacy, squid are esteemed, and even the devilfish is on the tables, hideous, repellent, slimy, horned, and tentacled; not mighty enough to crush out the life of the fisher, as was the horrific creature in Victor Hugo's "Toilers ...

— Mystic Isles of the South Seas. • Frederick O'Brien

... too late to see one killed. The boats, under full sail, were towing the carcase towards the ship. I would have given a good deal to have seen the encounter. The food of the sperm consists greatly of the huge rock squid or cuttle-fish, which they swallow in large lumps. I have heard whalers assert that a wounded sperm in the death agony will vomit immense pieces of squid. In this respect it differs much from the baleen whales, which have a narrow gullet. According to ...

— Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon • Robert A. Sterndale

... a piece of squid, which he tore with his teeth from the live and squirming monster, and hook and bait sank in ...

— South Sea Tales • Jack London

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