vampire squid
English
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Noun
[edit]vampire squid (plural vampire squids or vampire squid)
- Any extant or extinct squid-like cephalopod in the order Vampyromorphida.
- (especially) A small deep-sea cephalopod, Vampyroteuthis infernalis, the sole extant species of this order, found in temperate and tropical oceans.
- 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 229:
- The Vampire squid – which is actually an octopodiform and not a squid, and looks like an apparition from an impossibly ancient dream – is harmless to humans.
- (especially) A small deep-sea cephalopod, Vampyroteuthis infernalis, the sole extant species of this order, found in temperate and tropical oceans.
Translations
[edit]sea animal
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