Originally, the word was applied to the cuttlefish, a creature related to the squid and octopus that, when alarmed, releases an inky secretion.
Cephalopods belong to a biological class that includes octopuses, squid and cuttlefish.
Although they're known to feast upon cuttlefish, octopus, and small fish, their favorite prey is squid.
Cephalopods belong to a biological class that includes octopuses, squid and cuttlefish.
When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.