English words for 'Resembling a squid.'
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noun
- A bobtail squid.
- An animal that has a bobtail, such as certain canines or nags.
- (poker, often attributive) An open-ended straight or four flush.
- (agriculture) A tractor which performs without its trailer.
- A tractor-trailer that is relatively short in length.
- The tractor unit of a semi-truck without a trailer.
- A bobtail skink.
- A short, or deliberately shortened tail.
- large sheepdog with a profuse shaggy bluish-grey-and-white coat and short tail; believed to trace back to the Roman occupation of Britain
- a short or shortened tail of certain animals
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adj
noun
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- (zoology) The pen of a squid.
- (mechanical engineering) A quill drive, having a hollow shaft with another movable shaft inside it.
- (by extension) Any pen.
- A thin piece of bark, especially of cinnamon or cinchona, curled up into a tube.
- The lower shaft of a feather, specifically the region lacking barbs.
- Something having the form of a quill, such as the fold or plain of a ruff, or (weaving) a spindle, or spool, upon which the thread for the woof is wound in a shuttle.
- (music) The tube of a musical instrument.
- A pen made from a feather.
- (music) The plectrum with which musicians strike the strings of certain instruments.
- A sharply pointed, barbed, and easily detached needle-like structure that grows on the skin of a porcupine or hedgehog as a defense against predators.
- any of the larger wing or tail feathers of a bird
- the hollow spine of a feather
- pen made from a bird's feather
- a stiff hollow protective spine on a porcupine or hedgehog
verb
- To pierce with quills. (Usually in the passive voice, as be quilled or get quilled.)
- (figuratively) To write.
- (US and Canada, especially Appalachia and the Prairies, transitive) To subject (a woman who is giving birth) to the practice of quilling (blowing pepper into her nose to induce or hasten labor).
- To decorate with quillwork.
- To form fabric into small, rounded folds.
noun
- (inexact) A vampire squid.
- A fishhook with a piece of bright lead, bone, or other substance fastened on its shank to imitate a squid.
- (US, military, slang, mildly derogatory) A sailor in the Navy.
- (UK, slang, humorous, rare) A quid; one pound sterling.
- (slang, motorcycling, derogatory) A motorcyclist, especially a sport biker, characterized by reckless riding and lack of protective gear.
- A South Korean children's game where players, divided into offense and defense, compete on a squid-shaped field; the offensive team tries to reach a designated area, and the defensive team attempts to block them.
- Any of several carnivorous marine cephalopod mollusks, of the order Teuthida, having a mantle, eight arms, and a pair of tentacles
- widely distributed fast-moving ten-armed cephalopod mollusk having a long tapered body with triangular tail fins
- (Italian cuisine) squid prepared as food
verb
noun
- (zoology) The internal cartilage skeleton of a squid, shaped like a pen.
- (slang) A penitentiary, i.e. a state or federal prison for convicted felons.
- A female swan.
- (humorous) plural of pan
- Ellipsis of vapor pen (“electronic cigarette”).
- (baseball) The bullpen.
- (figurative) A writer, or their style.
- A light pen.
- (computing, informal) Penetration.
- A tool, originally made from a feather but now usually a small tubular instrument, containing ink used to write or make marks.
- An enclosure (enclosed area) used to contain domesticated animals, especially sheep or cattle.
- A syringe-like device for injecting a dose of medication such as insulin or epinephrine. (See Injector pen.)
- (soccer, slang) Penalty.
- (colloquial) Marks of ink left by a pen.
- (poetic) A wing.
- a writing implement with a point from which ink flows
- an enclosure for confining livestock
- female swan
- a portable enclosure in which babies may be left to play
- a correctional institution for those convicted of major crimes
verb
verb
adj
adj
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- The shell of such a mollusk.
- A kiln for drying hops; an oast.
- (figurative, in the plural) Chiefly in cockles of someone's heart: a person's innermost feelings.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) A £10 note; a tenner.
- (directly from French coquille) A wrinkle, pucker
- Any of various edible European bivalve mollusks, of the family Cardiidae, having heart-shaped shells.
- The fire chamber of a furnace.
- Any of several field weeds, such as the common corncockle (Agrostemma githago) and darnel ryegrass (Lolium temulentum).
- The dome of a heating furnace.
- (by extension) A defect in sheepskin; firm dark nodules caused by the bites of keds on live sheep
- (Cornwall, mining) The mineral black tourmaline or schorl.
- common edible, burrowing European bivalve mollusk that has a strong, rounded shell with radiating ribs
- common edible European bivalve
verb
noun
- A similar appendage of a cetacean or other marine animal.
- A similar structure protruding from a projectile, used to help keep it on course.
- (UK, formerly Australia, slang) a five-pound (£5) note; the sum of five pounds.
- (surfing) A similar structure on the bottom of a surfboard, used to help steer it.
- (nautical) The conning tower of a submarine.
- An extending part on a surface of a radiator, engine, heatsink, etc., used to facilitate cooling.
- A thin, rigid component of an aircraft, extending from the fuselage and used to stabilise and steer the aircraft.
- A hairstyle, resembling the fin of a fish, in which the hair is combed and set into a vertical ridge along the top of the head from about the crown to the forehead.
- A sharp raised edge (generally in concrete) capable of damaging a roof membrane or vapor retarder.
- (ichthyology, zootomy) One of the appendages of a fish, used to propel itself and to manoeuvre/maneuver.
- A device worn by divers and swimmers on their feet.
- a stabilizer on a ship that resembles the fin of a fish
- one of a set of parallel slats in a door or window to admit air and reject rain
- the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one
- organ of locomotion and balance in fishes and some other aquatic animals
- one of a pair of decorations projecting above the rear fenders of an automobile
- a shoe for swimming; the paddle-like front is an aid in swimming (especially underwater)
verb
- (intransitive) (Of a fish) to swim with the dorsal fin above the surface of the water.
- (intransitive) To swim in the manner of a fish.
- (transitive) To provide (a motor vehicle etc) with fins.
- (transitive) To cut the fins from a fish, shark, etc.
- propel oneself through the water in a finning motion
- show the fins above the water while swimming
- equip (a car) with fins
noun
- The clusters of gelatinous egg capsules of a squid (Loligo spp.).
- A small tree, of species Coccoloba uvifera, that grows on sandy beaches in tropical America; it has clusters of purple fruit.
- Any animal in the genus Molgula, bottom-dwelling sea squirts that look like peeled grapes.
- Seaweeds in the genus Caulerpa, eaten in Southeast Asia, especially Caulerpa lentillifera and Caulerpa racemosa.
- Gulfweed, a kind of brown alga (Sargassum).
- European ephedra (Ephedra distachya), a leafless plant found in sandy soils along the coast and inland from southern and central Europe to central Asia, with edible fruit, harvested for the ephedrine found in its stems.
- (UK, Ireland) Any plant in the genus Ephedra, especially those native to Europe and neighboring parts of Africa and Asia.
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- a projection below the mouth of certain mollusks that resembles a chin
- a projection like a chin formed by the sepals and base of the column in some orchids
- the protruding part of the lower jaw
- (botany) A projection in front of the flower in some orchids.
- (malacology) A chin-like projection below the mouth of certain mollusks.
- (anatomy) The chin.
- (entomology) The central part of the labium in insects.
noun
- A bobtail squid.
- An animal that has a bobtail, such as certain canines or nags.
- (poker, often attributive) An open-ended straight or four flush.
- (agriculture) A tractor which performs without its trailer.
- A tractor-trailer that is relatively short in length.
- The tractor unit of a semi-truck without a trailer.
- A bobtail skink.
- A short, or deliberately shortened tail.
- large sheepdog with a profuse shaggy bluish-grey-and-white coat and short tail; believed to trace back to the Roman occupation of Britain
- a short or shortened tail of certain animals
verb
adj
noun
noun
noun
- (zoology) The pen of a squid.
- (mechanical engineering) A quill drive, having a hollow shaft with another movable shaft inside it.
- (by extension) Any pen.
- A thin piece of bark, especially of cinnamon or cinchona, curled up into a tube.
- The lower shaft of a feather, specifically the region lacking barbs.
- Something having the form of a quill, such as the fold or plain of a ruff, or (weaving) a spindle, or spool, upon which the thread for the woof is wound in a shuttle.
- (music) The tube of a musical instrument.
- A pen made from a feather.
- (music) The plectrum with which musicians strike the strings of certain instruments.
- A sharply pointed, barbed, and easily detached needle-like structure that grows on the skin of a porcupine or hedgehog as a defense against predators.
- any of the larger wing or tail feathers of a bird
- the hollow spine of a feather
- pen made from a bird's feather
- a stiff hollow protective spine on a porcupine or hedgehog
verb
- To pierce with quills. (Usually in the passive voice, as be quilled or get quilled.)
- (figuratively) To write.
- (US and Canada, especially Appalachia and the Prairies, transitive) To subject (a woman who is giving birth) to the practice of quilling (blowing pepper into her nose to induce or hasten labor).
- To decorate with quillwork.
- To form fabric into small, rounded folds.
noun
- (inexact) A vampire squid.
- A fishhook with a piece of bright lead, bone, or other substance fastened on its shank to imitate a squid.
- (US, military, slang, mildly derogatory) A sailor in the Navy.
- (UK, slang, humorous, rare) A quid; one pound sterling.
- (slang, motorcycling, derogatory) A motorcyclist, especially a sport biker, characterized by reckless riding and lack of protective gear.
- A South Korean children's game where players, divided into offense and defense, compete on a squid-shaped field; the offensive team tries to reach a designated area, and the defensive team attempts to block them.
- Any of several carnivorous marine cephalopod mollusks, of the order Teuthida, having a mantle, eight arms, and a pair of tentacles
- widely distributed fast-moving ten-armed cephalopod mollusk having a long tapered body with triangular tail fins
- (Italian cuisine) squid prepared as food
verb
noun
- (zoology) The internal cartilage skeleton of a squid, shaped like a pen.
- (slang) A penitentiary, i.e. a state or federal prison for convicted felons.
- A female swan.
- (humorous) plural of pan
- Ellipsis of vapor pen (“electronic cigarette”).
- (baseball) The bullpen.
- (figurative) A writer, or their style.
- A light pen.
- (computing, informal) Penetration.
- A tool, originally made from a feather but now usually a small tubular instrument, containing ink used to write or make marks.
- An enclosure (enclosed area) used to contain domesticated animals, especially sheep or cattle.
- A syringe-like device for injecting a dose of medication such as insulin or epinephrine. (See Injector pen.)
- (soccer, slang) Penalty.
- (colloquial) Marks of ink left by a pen.
- (poetic) A wing.
- a writing implement with a point from which ink flows
- an enclosure for confining livestock
- female swan
- a portable enclosure in which babies may be left to play
- a correctional institution for those convicted of major crimes
verb
verb
noun
noun
- The shell of such a mollusk.
- A kiln for drying hops; an oast.
- (figurative, in the plural) Chiefly in cockles of someone's heart: a person's innermost feelings.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) A £10 note; a tenner.
- (directly from French coquille) A wrinkle, pucker
- Any of various edible European bivalve mollusks, of the family Cardiidae, having heart-shaped shells.
- The fire chamber of a furnace.
- Any of several field weeds, such as the common corncockle (Agrostemma githago) and darnel ryegrass (Lolium temulentum).
- The dome of a heating furnace.
- (by extension) A defect in sheepskin; firm dark nodules caused by the bites of keds on live sheep
- (Cornwall, mining) The mineral black tourmaline or schorl.
- common edible, burrowing European bivalve mollusk that has a strong, rounded shell with radiating ribs
- common edible European bivalve
verb
noun
- A similar appendage of a cetacean or other marine animal.
- A similar structure protruding from a projectile, used to help keep it on course.
- (UK, formerly Australia, slang) a five-pound (£5) note; the sum of five pounds.
- (surfing) A similar structure on the bottom of a surfboard, used to help steer it.
- (nautical) The conning tower of a submarine.
- An extending part on a surface of a radiator, engine, heatsink, etc., used to facilitate cooling.
- A thin, rigid component of an aircraft, extending from the fuselage and used to stabilise and steer the aircraft.
- A hairstyle, resembling the fin of a fish, in which the hair is combed and set into a vertical ridge along the top of the head from about the crown to the forehead.
- A sharp raised edge (generally in concrete) capable of damaging a roof membrane or vapor retarder.
- (ichthyology, zootomy) One of the appendages of a fish, used to propel itself and to manoeuvre/maneuver.
- A device worn by divers and swimmers on their feet.
- a stabilizer on a ship that resembles the fin of a fish
- one of a set of parallel slats in a door or window to admit air and reject rain
- the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one
- organ of locomotion and balance in fishes and some other aquatic animals
- one of a pair of decorations projecting above the rear fenders of an automobile
- a shoe for swimming; the paddle-like front is an aid in swimming (especially underwater)
verb
- (intransitive) (Of a fish) to swim with the dorsal fin above the surface of the water.
- (intransitive) To swim in the manner of a fish.
- (transitive) To provide (a motor vehicle etc) with fins.
- (transitive) To cut the fins from a fish, shark, etc.
- propel oneself through the water in a finning motion
- show the fins above the water while swimming
- equip (a car) with fins
noun
- The clusters of gelatinous egg capsules of a squid (Loligo spp.).
- A small tree, of species Coccoloba uvifera, that grows on sandy beaches in tropical America; it has clusters of purple fruit.
- Any animal in the genus Molgula, bottom-dwelling sea squirts that look like peeled grapes.
- Seaweeds in the genus Caulerpa, eaten in Southeast Asia, especially Caulerpa lentillifera and Caulerpa racemosa.
- Gulfweed, a kind of brown alga (Sargassum).
- European ephedra (Ephedra distachya), a leafless plant found in sandy soils along the coast and inland from southern and central Europe to central Asia, with edible fruit, harvested for the ephedrine found in its stems.
- (UK, Ireland) Any plant in the genus Ephedra, especially those native to Europe and neighboring parts of Africa and Asia.
noun
noun
- a projection below the mouth of certain mollusks that resembles a chin
- a projection like a chin formed by the sepals and base of the column in some orchids
- the protruding part of the lower jaw
- (botany) A projection in front of the flower in some orchids.
- (malacology) A chin-like projection below the mouth of certain mollusks.
- (anatomy) The chin.
- (entomology) The central part of the labium in insects.