Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A sparoid fish of the genus Calamus: so called because the second interhemal spine is pen-shaped. The species are mostly inhabitants of the Caribbean sea. C. penna is the best-known species, called in Spanish pez de pluma.
- noun A squid, as Loligo.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A squid.
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- noun A
squid .
Etymologies
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pen + fish
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