cuttlebone
the calcareous internal shell of cuttlefishes, used to make powder for polishing and fed to canaries and other pet birds to supply their diet with lime.
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How to use cuttlebone in a sentence
There were crushed pieces of calcined material that looked like cuttlebone.
Stamped Caution | Raymond Zinke GallunOf such is the cuttlebone of commerce, which is a calcareous leaf-like body obtained from Sepia, the cuttlefish.
The Sea-beach at Ebb-tide | Augusta Foote Arnold
British Dictionary definitions for cuttlebone
/ (ˈkʌtəlˌbəʊn) /
the internal calcareous shell of the cuttlefish, used as a mineral supplement to the diet of cage-birds and as a polishing agent
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