cuttlefishes
- plural of cuttlefish.
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Roger Hanlon of the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass., and his colleagues recently discovered that cuttlefishes actively express opsin genes throughout their skin, particularly in their fins and underbellies.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 20, 2012
Presumably the octopus and cuttlefish employ the same method of self-defense; they are not the only ones: Extremely sly and subtle fishes Are octopi or cuttlefishes.
From Time Magazine Archive
There are wonderfully complete fossil series, e.g. among cuttlefishes, in which we can almost see evolution in process.
From The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told by Thomson, J. Arthur
Seven years later Lamarck gave some account of the genera of cuttlefishes.
From Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work by Packard, A. S. (Alpheus Spring)
In some mollusks, as the cuttlefishes, it is internal, or concealed by the mantle.
From The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section S by Project Gutenberg
