calamary

American  

[kal-uh-mer-ee, -muh-ree] / ˈkæl əˌmɛr i, -mə ri /

Also calamar

noun

calamaries plural

1. a squid, especially of the genus Loligo.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• calamaries
  plural

Etymology

Origin of calamary

First recorded in 1560–70; apparently from Latin calamārius “pertaining to a pen”; see calamari; the ink metaphor may stem from a popular form such as Italian calamaro

Example Sentences

In November, 1873—about three weeks after the occurrence in Conception Bay—another calamary somewhat smaller than the preceding, but of the same species, also came into Mr. Harvey's possession.

From Sea Monsters Unmasked and Sea Fables Explained by Lee, H. W. (Henry William)

Squid, skwid, n. a kind of cuttle-fish or calamary: a lure used in trolling for fish.—v.i. to fish with a squid or spoon-bait.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

This appears to have been, like the others from the same locality, a large calamary.

From Sea Monsters Unmasked and Sea Fables Explained by Lee, H. W. (Henry William)

The only doubt I have is whether the fisherman correctly described his assailant as an octopus, and whether it was not a calamary.

From Sea Monsters Unmasked and Sea Fables Explained by Lee, H. W. (Henry William)

An animal allied to the cuttle-fish, belonging to the class Cephalopoda; the calamary or Loligo of naturalists.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir