English words for 'somewhat flattened cylindrical squid'
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- (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- A tool, originally made from a feather but now usually a small tubular instrument, containing ink used to write or make marks.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
- 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
- (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
- 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.
- 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.
- bottom-living cephalopod having a soft oval body with eight long tentacles
- tentacles of octopus prepared as food
- (uncountable) The flesh of these marine molluscs eaten as food.
- (American football, informal) An instance of a player scoring a touchdown immediately followed by a successful two-point conversion, resulting in a total score of eight points.
- (countable, loosely) Any of several marine molluscs of the order Octopoda, having no internal or external protective shell or bone (unlike the nautilus, squid and cuttlefish) and eight arms each covered with suckers.
- (countable) An organization that has many powerful branches controlled from the centre.
- (countable, strictly) A mollusc from genus Octopus.
- (countable, diving) A safety device allowing divers to share an air supply in an emergency.
- To plug a large number of devices into a single electric outlet.
- To hunt and catch octopuses.
- (by extension) To grow in use vastly beyond what was originally intended.
- To spread out in long arms or legs in many directions.
- To put (or attempt to put) one's fingers, hands or arms in many things or places at roughly the same time.
- To behave like an octopus.
- mollusk with a low conical shell
- any of various usually marine gastropods with low conical shells; found clinging to rocks in littoral areas
- (British) Someone clingy or dependent; someone disregarding or ignorant of another's personal space.
- Any of various gastropods with a conical shell shape patelliform and a strong, muscular foot that they use to create strong suction to cling onto rocks or other hard surfaces.
- primitive elongated bilaterally symmetrical marine mollusk having a mantle covered with eight calcareous plates
- a woolen tunic worn by men and women in ancient Greece
- Any of various rock-clinging marine molluscs of the class Polyplacophora, including the genus Chiton.
- (historical) A loose woolen tunic worn by men and women in Ancient Greece.
- a projection below the mouth of certain mollusks that resembles a chin
- (malacology) A chin-like projection below the mouth of certain mollusks.
- 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.
- (anatomy) The chin.
- (entomology) The central part of the labium in insects.
- 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
- (inexact) A vampire squid.
- (US, military, slang, mildly derogatory) A sailor in the Navy.
- (UK, slang, humorous, rare) A quid; one pound sterling.
- A fishhook with a piece of bright lead, bone, or other substance fastened on its shank to imitate a squid.
- (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
- Any of other large squid of other families, about which less is known.
- (informal) Synonym of Kraken (Norse sea monster)
- Any of the very large squid, of the genus Architeuthis (family Architeuthidae), that live at great depths, and of which little is known.
- (informal) Synonym of Cthulhu (Lovecraftian horror monster)
- largest mollusk known about but never seen (to 60 feet long)
- freshwater or marine or terrestrial gastropod mollusk usually having an external enclosing spiral shell
- edible terrestrial snail usually served in the shell with a sauce of melted butter and garlic
- (informal, by extension) A slow person; a sluggard.
- (military, historical) A tortoise or testudo; a movable roof or shed to protect besiegers.
- (engineering) A spiral cam, or a flat piece of metal of spirally curved outline, used for giving motion to, or changing the position of, another part, as the hammer tail of a striking clock.
- The pod of the snail clover.
- Any of very many animals (either hermaphroditic or nonhermaphroditic), of the class Gastropoda, having a coiled shell.
- (rail transport) A locomotive with a prime mover but no traction motors, used to provide extra electrical power to another locomotive.
- marine or freshwater mollusks having a soft body with platelike gills enclosed within two shells hinged together
- Any mollusc belonging to the taxonomic class Bivalvia, characterized by a shell consisting of two hinged sections, such as a scallop, clam, mussel or oyster.
- (botany) A pericarp in which the seedcase opens or splits into two parts or valves.
- marine gastropod mollusk having a very small thin shell
- Any of the family Epitoniidae (syn. Janthinidae), of pelagic sea snails.
- (malacology) A marine univalve shell of the genus Bulla (Bullidae) and certain shells of similar appearance of the now disused order Tectibranchiata of molluscs.
- Any of the headshield slugs of genus Bulla, belonging to the order Cephalaspidea of gastropods.
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- (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
- 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
- (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
- 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.
- 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.
- bottom-living cephalopod having a soft oval body with eight long tentacles
- tentacles of octopus prepared as food
- (uncountable) The flesh of these marine molluscs eaten as food.
- (American football, informal) An instance of a player scoring a touchdown immediately followed by a successful two-point conversion, resulting in a total score of eight points.
- (countable, loosely) Any of several marine molluscs of the order Octopoda, having no internal or external protective shell or bone (unlike the nautilus, squid and cuttlefish) and eight arms each covered with suckers.
- (countable) An organization that has many powerful branches controlled from the centre.
- (countable, strictly) A mollusc from genus Octopus.
- (countable, diving) A safety device allowing divers to share an air supply in an emergency.
- To plug a large number of devices into a single electric outlet.
- To hunt and catch octopuses.
- (by extension) To grow in use vastly beyond what was originally intended.
- To spread out in long arms or legs in many directions.
- To put (or attempt to put) one's fingers, hands or arms in many things or places at roughly the same time.
- To behave like an octopus.
- mollusk with a low conical shell
- any of various usually marine gastropods with low conical shells; found clinging to rocks in littoral areas
- (British) Someone clingy or dependent; someone disregarding or ignorant of another's personal space.
- Any of various gastropods with a conical shell shape patelliform and a strong, muscular foot that they use to create strong suction to cling onto rocks or other hard surfaces.
- primitive elongated bilaterally symmetrical marine mollusk having a mantle covered with eight calcareous plates
- a woolen tunic worn by men and women in ancient Greece
- Any of various rock-clinging marine molluscs of the class Polyplacophora, including the genus Chiton.
- (historical) A loose woolen tunic worn by men and women in Ancient Greece.
- a projection below the mouth of certain mollusks that resembles a chin
- (malacology) A chin-like projection below the mouth of certain mollusks.
- 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.
- (anatomy) The chin.
- (entomology) The central part of the labium in insects.
- 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
- (inexact) A vampire squid.
- (US, military, slang, mildly derogatory) A sailor in the Navy.
- (UK, slang, humorous, rare) A quid; one pound sterling.
- A fishhook with a piece of bright lead, bone, or other substance fastened on its shank to imitate a squid.
- (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
- Any of other large squid of other families, about which less is known.
- (informal) Synonym of Kraken (Norse sea monster)
- Any of the very large squid, of the genus Architeuthis (family Architeuthidae), that live at great depths, and of which little is known.
- (informal) Synonym of Cthulhu (Lovecraftian horror monster)
- largest mollusk known about but never seen (to 60 feet long)
- freshwater or marine or terrestrial gastropod mollusk usually having an external enclosing spiral shell
- edible terrestrial snail usually served in the shell with a sauce of melted butter and garlic
- (informal, by extension) A slow person; a sluggard.
- (military, historical) A tortoise or testudo; a movable roof or shed to protect besiegers.
- (engineering) A spiral cam, or a flat piece of metal of spirally curved outline, used for giving motion to, or changing the position of, another part, as the hammer tail of a striking clock.
- The pod of the snail clover.
- Any of very many animals (either hermaphroditic or nonhermaphroditic), of the class Gastropoda, having a coiled shell.
- (rail transport) A locomotive with a prime mover but no traction motors, used to provide extra electrical power to another locomotive.
- marine or freshwater mollusks having a soft body with platelike gills enclosed within two shells hinged together
- Any mollusc belonging to the taxonomic class Bivalvia, characterized by a shell consisting of two hinged sections, such as a scallop, clam, mussel or oyster.
- (botany) A pericarp in which the seedcase opens or splits into two parts or valves.
- marine gastropod mollusk having a very small thin shell
- Any of the family Epitoniidae (syn. Janthinidae), of pelagic sea snails.
- (malacology) A marine univalve shell of the genus Bulla (Bullidae) and certain shells of similar appearance of the now disused order Tectibranchiata of molluscs.
- Any of the headshield slugs of genus Bulla, belonging to the order Cephalaspidea of gastropods.