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cuttle

(ˈkʌtəl)
n
1. (Animals) short for cuttlefish, cuttlebone
2. (Animals) little cuttle a small cuttlefish, Sepiola atlantica, often found on beaches
[Old English cudele; related to Old High German kiot bag, Norwegian dialect kaule cuttle, Old English codd bag]
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014
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Noun1.cuttle - ten-armed oval-bodied cephalopod with narrow fins as long as the body and a large calcareous internal shellcuttle - ten-armed oval-bodied cephalopod with narrow fins as long as the body and a large calcareous internal shell
decapod - cephalopods having eight short tentacles plus two long ones
genus Sepia, Sepia - type genus of the Sepiidae
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