cuttlefish

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a marine cephalopod with eight arms, two longer tentacles, and a broad internal shell called a cuttlebone

   The cuttlefish changed color as it moved across the reef.

From Middle English cotul or cuttle + fish. The deeper origin of cuttle is uncertain; fish is used here in the older broad sense for an aquatic animal.

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