spirula
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Diminutive of Latin spira (“a coil”)
Noun
[edit]spirula (plural spirulas)
- Any mollusk of the cephalopod genus Spirula, of which Spirula spirula is the only extant species.
Synonyms
[edit]- (extant species): little post horn squid, ram's horn squid, tail-light squid
References
[edit]- Spirula on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Spirula on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Spirula on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Anagrams
[edit]Polish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Internationalism; ultimately from Latin spīra.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]spirula f
Declension
[edit]Declension of spirula
References
[edit]- ^ Mirosław Bańko, Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021) “spirula”, in Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN
Further reading
[edit]- spirula in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1915), “spirula”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 6, Warsaw, page 295
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