Definitions for cuttlebone

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cuttlebone cut·tle·bone

Spelling: [kuht-l-bohn]

IPA: /ˈkʌt lˌboʊn/

Cuttlebone is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 376 anagrams from letters in cuttlebone (bceelnottu).

Definitions for cuttlebone

noun

1. the calcareous internal shell of cuttlefishes, used to make powder for polishing and fed to canaries and other pet birds to supply their diet with lime.

Origin of cuttlebone

First recorded in 1805-15; cuttle(fish) + bone

Examples for cuttlebone

Of such is the cuttlebone of commerce, which is a calcareous leaf-like body obtained from Sepia, the cuttlefish.

There were crushed pieces of calcined material that looked like cuttlebone.