Definitions for cuttlefishes

cuttlefishes cut·tle·fish

Spelling: [kuht-l-fish]
IPA: /ˈkʌt lˌfɪʃ/

Cuttlefishes is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 750 anagrams from letters in cuttlefishes (ceefhilssttu).

Definitions for cuttlefishes

noun

  1. any of several cephalopods, especially of the genus Sepia, having eight arms with suckers and two tentacles, and ejecting a black, inklike fluid when in danger.

Origin of cuttlefishes

1400-50; late Middle English codel, Old English cudele cuttlefish + fish

Examples for cuttlefishes

We were very much interested in the article about the cuttlefish or octopus found on the coast of Florida, in Number 16.

Aristotle recognises that all his cuttlefish are alike in structure.

A troop of cuttlefish swimming in the sea is a beautiful sight.

Why not some strange thing of the air, as a cuttlefish is of the sea?

He had no more sentiment left in him than a cuttlefish—was the result of the mental contrast which she drew.

But he does think, slowly and tenaciously, as a cuttlefish grips.

Gods, too, especially when these gods happen to be cuttlefish, might be petrified.

She leaned a bit heavily on the arm she took as they left the cuttlefish to his ill-conditioned solitude.

He that uses many words for the explaining of any subject doth, like the cuttlefish, hide himself in his own ink.

Its usual food, however, appears to be cuttlefish and sorrel.

Word Value for cuttlefishes
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