calamary
noun
a squid, especially of the genus Loligo.
calamar
-
a variation of
calamary.
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The casual dissection of a calamar, a species of cuttle-fish, influenced him to study the anatomy of mollusca, which afterward led to his great classification of the whole animal kingdom.
From Famous Men of Science by Sarah K. Bolton
