sepiolan.
/sɪˈpʌɪələ/ Zoology.
The name of a genus of small cuttlefishes.
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1797 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 282 The sepiola, or small cuttle, with a short body, rounded at the bottom.]
1835 W. Kirby On Power of God in Creation of Animals II. xvii. 105 In some genera, as the poulpe and sepiole, besides eight shorter arms, there is a pair of very long ones.
1841 Penny Cycl. XXI. 255 Some [naked cephalopods] are of very large dimensions, and others—the Sepiolæ for instance—very small.
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