squid C2+ Topic:The Human Body US /skwɪd/ UK /skwɪd/ See IPA manual Meanings 1 noun a marine cephalopod with ten arms and an elongated body The fishermen hauled in a net thick with wriggling squid. Thesaurus Synonyms 1 noun · a marine cephalopod with... calamaricephalopod Common collocations giant squid Adjective + noun Etymology AI details Of unknown origin, first recorded in the 17th century; possibly a sailors' variant of squirt, alluding to the animal's inky ejection, but the derivation is uncertain. Topics The Human Body External links Cambridge Dictionary Wiktionary Google Images # squid **Type:** Word **Level:** C2+ **Part of speech:** noun **IPA (US):** /skwɪd/ **IPA (UK):** /skwɪd/ ## Meanings 1. a marine cephalopod with ten arms and an elongated body ## Examples - The fishermen hauled in a net thick with wriggling squid. ## Synonyms - calamari - cephalopod ## Etymology Of unknown origin, first recorded in the 17th century; possibly a sailors' variant of squirt, alluding to the animal's inky ejection, but the derivation is uncertain. ## AI Etymology Squid is of unknown origin, first recorded in the 17th century; possibly a sailors' variant of squirt, alluding to the animal's inky ejection, but the derivation is uncertain. The wording preserves that uncertainty: the older history is best read as a cautious account rather than a fully settled chain. The modern sense continues the older lexical line without requiring a separate origin. In current use it covers a marine cephalopod with ten arms and an elongated body. ## Topics - The Human Body markdown