calamar

Definitions of calamar
  1. noun
    widely distributed fast-moving ten-armed cephalopod mollusk having a long tapered body with triangular tail fins
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    types:
    calamar gigante
    largest mollusk known about but never seen (to 60 feet long)
    type of:
    decápodo
    cephalopods having eight short tentacles plus two long ones
  2. noun
    (Italian cuisine) squid prepared as food
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    type of:
    marisco, pescado de mar
    edible fish (broadly including freshwater fish) or shellfish or roe etc
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