Cuttlefish
111Sepia — n. 1 a dark reddish brown colour. 2 a a brown pigment prepared from a black fluid secreted by cuttlefish, used in monochrome drawing and in water colours. b a brown tint used in photography. 3 a drawing done in sepia. 4 the fluid secreted by… …
112cut|tle|fish — «KUHT uhl FIHSH», noun, plural fish|es or (collectively) fish. a saltwater mollusk having ten arms with suckers, two of which are especially long, and a hard internal shell. The cuttlefish is related to the squid. When frightened, one kind of… …
113se|pi|a — «SEE pee uh», noun, plural pi|as, pi|ae « pee ee», adjective. –n. 1. a dark brown paint or ink prepared from the inky secretion of cuttlefish. 2. a dark brown. 3. a drawing, photograph, lithograph, or the like, in tones of brown. 4 …
114Inkfish — Ink fish , n. A cuttlefish. See {Cuttlefish}. [1913 Webster] …
115Sepiostare — Se pi*o*stare , n. [Sepia + Gr. ??? a bone.] (Zo[ o]l.) The bone or shell of cuttlefish. See Illust. under {Cuttlefish}. [1913 Webster] …
116cuttlebone — noun Etymology: Middle English cotul cuttlefish (from Old English cudele) + English bone Date: 1547 the shell of a cuttlefish that is sometimes used for polishing powder or for supplying cage birds with lime and salts …
117sepia — I. noun Etymology: Latin, cuttlefish, ink, from Greek sēpia Date: 1821 1. a. a brown melanin containing pigment from the ink of cuttlefishes b. the inky secretion of a cuttlefish 2. a print or photograph of a brown color resembling sepia 3. a… …
118Taiwanese cuisine — (traditional Chinese: 台灣菜; simplified Chinese: 台湾菜; pinyin: Táiwāncài; Pe̍h ōe jī: Tâi oân liāu lí) has several variations. In addition to the following representative dishes from the people of Hoklo …
119Polarization — ( Brit. polarisation) is a property of waves that describes the orientation of their oscillations. For transverse waves, it describes the orientation of the oscillations in the plane perpendicular to the wave s direction of travel. Longitudinal… …
120Ammonite — For other uses, see Ammonite (disambiguation). Ammonites Temporal range: 400–65.5 Ma …
