teuthis

See also: Teuthis and -teuthis

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek τευθίς (teuthís)

Noun

teuthis

  1. (Ancient Greece) A small squid.
    • 1862, Aristotle, D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, transl., History of Animals:
      “[…] Compared with one another, the teuthis, or calamary, is long-shaped, and the sepia flat-shaped; and of the calamaries the so-called teuthus is much bigger than the teuthis; for teuthi have been found as much as five ells long.”

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