Usually means: Marine mollusk with internal shell.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word cuttlefish:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. cuttlefish: Merriam-Webster
  2. cuttlefish: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cuttlefish: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cuttlefish: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cuttlefish: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cuttlefish, cuttlefish: Wordnik
  7. cuttlefish: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. cuttlefish: Wiktionary
  9. cuttlefish: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. cuttlefish: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. cuttlefish: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Cuttlefish, cuttlefish: Dictionary.com
  13. cuttlefish: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Cuttlefish: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Cuttlefish: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. cuttlefish: Rhymezone
  17. Cuttlefish: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. cuttlefish: FreeDictionary.org
  19. cuttlefish: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. cuttlefish: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. cuttlefish: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. cuttlefish: Encyclopedia

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  1. cuttlefish: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cuttlefish: Urban Dictionary

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▸ noun:  Any of various squid-like cephalopods (marine mollusks) of the order Sepiida that have eight arms, two retractable tentacles, and a calcareous internal shell, and can eject a dark ink when threatened.

Similar:
cuttle, squid, pourcuttle, cuttlefish bone, octopus, reef squid, sea-sleeve, sepia, sepiadariid, sepioid, more...

Opposite:
bird, mammal, reptile, amphibian.

Types:
common cuttlefish, dwarf cuttlefish, pharaoh cuttlefish, giant cuttlefish, more...

Phrases:
cuttlefish bone, flamboyant cuttlefish, Common cuttlefish, Giant cuttlefish, Pharaoh cuttlefish, more...

Adjectives:
common, giant, small, young, large, male, little, modern, female, tiny, immense
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Similar:
cuttle, squid, pourcuttle, cuttlefish bone, octopus, reef squid, sea-sleeve, sepia, sepiadariid, sepioid, more...

Opposite:
bird, mammal, reptile, amphibian.

Types:
common cuttlefish, dwarf cuttlefish, pharaoh cuttlefish, giant cuttlefish, more...

Phrases:
cuttlefish bone, flamboyant cuttlefish, Common cuttlefish, Giant cuttlefish, Pharaoh cuttlefish, cuttlefish pigment, more...

Adjectives:
common, giant, small, young, large, male, little, modern, female, tiny, immense



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