squid : Idioms & Phrases

• (Zoöl.), an oceanic squid (Ommastrephes, ∨ Sthenoteuthis, Bartramii), abundant in the Gulf Stream, which is able to leap out of the water with such force that it often falls on the deck of a vessel.

Webster 1913

• . (Zoöl.) See under Flying, and Giant.

Webster 1913

• noun largest mollusk known about but never seen (to 60 feet long)
  architeuthis.
  

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• (Zoöl.), one of several species of very large squids, belonging to Architeuthis and allied genera. Some are over forty feet long.

Webster 1913

• any squid which has the arms furnished with hooks, instead of suckers, as in the genera Enoploteuthis and Onychteuthis.

Webster 1913

• (Zoöl.), the striped bass.

Webster 1913

• noun a stinkhorn of genus Pseudocolus; the fruiting body first resembles a small puffball that soon splits open to form a stalk with tapering arms that arch and taper to a common point
  Pseudocolus fusiformis.
  

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