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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: (Italian cuisine) squid prepared as food [syn: squid, calamari, calamary]

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural -maries) Etymology: Medieval Latin calamarium Date: 1567 squid

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (pl. -ies) any cephalopod mollusc with a long tapering penlike horny internal shell, esp. a squid of the genus Loligo. Etymology: med.L calamarium pen-case f. L calamus pen

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Calamar Cal"a*mar (k[a^]l"[.a]*m[aum]r), Calamary Cal"a*ma*ry, (-m[asl]*r[y^]r)n. [LL. calamarium inkstand, fr. L. calamus a reed pen: cf. F. calmar, calemar, pen case, calamar.] (Zo["o]l.) A cephalopod, belonging to the genus Loligo and related genera. There are many species. They have a sack of inklike fluid which they discharge from the siphon tube, when pursued or alarmed, in order to confuse their enemies. Their shell is a thin horny plate, within the flesh of the back, shaped very much like a quill pen. In America they are called squids. See Squid.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. See calamar