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cuttlefish

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for cuttlefish.

Editorial note

They could have learned as much studying cuttlefish and exotic mushrooms in isolation for all it did them.

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Quick take

Any 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.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of cuttlefish gathered in one view.

noun

Any 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.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for cuttlefish.

noun

Any 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.

Example sentences

1

They could have learned as much studying cuttlefish and exotic mushrooms in isolation for all it did them.

2

We have performed this both on the Cuttlefish Android emulator device, and on a Pixel 6 Pro.

3

Jaron Lanier speculates the lack of cultural knowledge passing from one generation to the next has put a cap on Cuttlefish development.

4

Many Cephalopods (octopuses, squid, cuttlefish) can see with their arms and then replay the image on the other side like a video screen.

5

I realized a few years ago that cuttlefish were actually little Cthulhus, in behavior, not just form.

6

Could I get away with running Cuttlefish in KVM (on an aarch64 SOC) and get OK performance?

7

To return to Thai, squid, octopus, and cuttlefish are all ปลาหมึก.

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If my TV looked anything like a cuttlefish, I'd watch it a lot more.

9

I was able to hang out with a group of cuttlefish though.

10

When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.

11

A curious-er question to me would be how did cephalopods (octopuses, cuttlefish) develop sophisticated intelligence a few hundred million years before ‘we’ did separately from us?

12

(but sort of like chromophores in an octopus or cuttlefish, perhaps).

Quote examples

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When cuttlefish hunt, they "flash" their chromatophore-laden skin in writhing patterns that daze or hypnotize the prey, preventing it from escaping or attacking when the cuttlefish moves to devour it.

2

Interesting bit near the end: "And even though they have incredible color-changing skills — going from beige to blood-red or striped in the blink of an eye — cuttlefish are totally colorblind." Which raises the question of how cuttlefish mimicry works - how can it imitate what it does not perceive?

3

>>> Many types of aquatic animals commonly referred to as "fish" are not fish in the sense given above; examples include shellfish, cuttlefish, starfish, crayfish and jellyfish.

4

He posits one mechanism for how the octopus might be able to colour-match while being colour-blind, which is the presence of distributed light sensing pigments in the skin - a molecule for this, "opsin", can be found in the skin of cuttlefish and squid (and maybe octopi too, he didn't say).

Proper noun examples

1

Seang is referring to Cuttlefish, which is indeed a virtual Android device that can be run on PCs.

2

In the upcoming release of Cuttlefish, due out any time now, there will be locality information exposed to Hadoop for better task scheduling.

3

Cuttlefish can perceive the polarization of light.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use cuttlefish in a sentence?

They could have learned as much studying cuttlefish and exotic mushrooms in isolation for all it did them.

What does cuttlefish mean?

Any 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.

What part of speech is cuttlefish?

cuttlefish is commonly used as noun.