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‖ loligo|ləʊˈlaɪgəʊ| Also 7 lolligo. [a. L. lolīgo.] A genus of cephalopods; an individual of this genus, a squid. ¶ In the first quot. used fig. and app. by mistake for torpedo.
a1626Bp. Andrewes 96 Serm., Of Holy Ghost xv. (1629) 763 St. Paul calls them the Lolligoe's of the Land. His word is καταναρκεῖν; the six daies and the seventh, to them both alike. 1658Sir T. Browne Gard. Cyrus v. 69 The cuttle-fish and Loligo. [1706Phillips, Loligo (Lat.), the Calimary Fish, whose Bloud is like Ink, as well as that of the Cuttle-fish.] 1835–6Todd Cycl. Anat. I. 540/1 In Loligo the coats of the corresponding veins..present..a spongy thickening. 1854H. Miller Sch. & Schm. (1858) 467 The loligo..laid hold of the pebbles, apparently to render its abduction as difficult as possible. |