英语词汇“calamary”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

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calamary

释义

calamary|ˈkæləmərɪ|
Also 6–7 calamarie, 9 calamer, calamury.
[f. L. calamāri-us pertaining to a calamus or pen; in Sp. calamar, F. calmar. From the pen-like internal shell (and perhaps also having reference to the ‘ink’ or black fluid, which these animals squirt out).]
The general name for Cephalopods or Cuttle-fish of the family Teuthidæ, more especially of the genus Loligo, cuttle-fishes having a long narrow body flanked by two triangular fins, and with the internal shell ‘a horny flexible pen’: e.g. the Common Calamary, Squid, or Pen-fish.
1567J. Maplet Gr. Forest 75 Calamarie..is like the Cuttle, but that she is a little longer.1635Swan Spec. M. (1670) 342 The Calamary is sometimes called the Sea-clerke, having as it were a knife and a pen. Some call him the Ink⁓horn-fish.1758Phil. Trans. L. 778 The body of the..Calamary is a sort of cartilaginous case..of a roundish oblong shape.1848Carpenter Anim. Phys. 101 The body..furnished with a fin-like expansion behind, as in the calamary.1854Woodward Mollusca iii. 11 The calamary can even strike the surface of the sea with its tail.

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