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单词 calamary
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calamaryn.

Brit. /ˈkaləməri/, U.S. /ˈkæləˌmɛri/
Forms: Also 1500s–1600s calamarie, 1800s calamer, calamury.
Etymology: < Latin calamārius pertaining to a calamus or pen; in Spanish calamar, French 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 cuttlefish of the family Teuthidæ, more especially of the genus Loligo, cuttlefishes 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.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Cephalopoda > [noun] > order Dibranchiata > section Decapoda > family Teuthidae > member of (squid)
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1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 75 Calamarie..is like the Cuttle, but that she is a little longer.
1635 J. Swan Speculum Mundi viii. §1. 384 The Calamarie is sometimes called the Sea-clerk, having as it were a knife and a pen. Some call him the Ink-horn-fish.
1759 Philos. Trans. 1758 (Royal Soc.) 50 778 The body of the..Calamary is a sort of cartilaginous case..of a roundish oblong shape.
1844 W. B. Carpenter Animal Physiol. ii. 101 The body..furnished with a fin-like expansion behind, as in the calamary.
1851 S. P. Woodward Man. Mollusca i. 11 The calamary can even strike the surface of the sea with its tail.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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