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squid
squid Any of numerous species of marine
cephalopod molluscs that have a cylindrical body with an internal horny plate (the
pen) that serves as a skeleton. It has eight short, suckered tentacles surrounding the mouth, in addition to which there are two longer, arm-like tentacles that can be shot out to seize moving prey. Several species of giant squid (genus Architeuthis) may reach 20m (65ft) in length. Class Cephalopoda; order Teuthoidea.
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Squid: a shortage of this increasingly popular mollusk may be sending prices higher, but suppliers say it's still a deal. (Species Focus).
Magazine article from: Seafood Business; 1/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...happily tossing out offers of his California squid for about $680 a ton. Byrne, owner of...s Fisheries, was eager to start moving squid at the start of the big Southern California...course, was the logical place to look for squid buyers. From 1995 to 2001, annual U...
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Squid.
Magazine article from: Science Weekly; 8/21/1996; 700+ words
; Squid: Fact or Fiction? Squid are truly amazing creatures! They live in every ocean of the world. Long ago fishermen thought squid were mermaids. Others thought they were sea monsters with hundreds...
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SQUID ON TV NEWS
Newspaper article from: Monterey County Weekly; 11/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...BEADY-EYED LOOK AT LOCAL NIGHTLY NEWSCASTS. Squid loves TV. Always has. When Squid was a mere Squidling, the TV was the best thing...Squidaddy and Squidmommy were busy. But TV was fun. Squid loves everything about TV, from prime-time comedies...
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Squid: steady supplies from around the world make this mollusk a perennial bargain. (Shellfish Focus).(international fish industry)(Statistical Data Included)
Magazine article from: Seafood Business; 9/1/2002; 700+ words
; ...Americans still squirm when they think of eating squid, slowly but surely, we're becoming a nation of squid eaters. Even Red Lobster, that safe harbor of middle-American cuisine, now has squid on its lunch and dinner menus. Of course...
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SQUID FRY
Newspaper article from: Monterey County Weekly; 7/5/2007; ; 614 words
; COPS BLOW IT UP...Squid really wishes cops would consider community...a gang-banger- all those qualities Squid normally loathes in a human entity. So they got him. Good. But here's Squid's beef: The cops took all of Mendoza...
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Squid squirms its way into Americans' hearts
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 6/8/1989; ; 700+ words
; For many of us, our first view of a squid was from inside the Nautilus in the film...would no more have thought of eating squid than of dining on Tyrannosaurus rex or...and it is delicious. Properly prepared, squid is snowy-white and very tender, and...
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Squid Reeled In; State proposes calamari fishery management.
Newspaper article from: Coast Weekly; 8/13/2003; ; 700+ words
; First squid went from being lowly baitfish to a fancy...fishery. Now the once wide-open California squid fishery--a staple of the dwindling Monterey...at a meeting in Long Beach on Aug. 1, squid fishing will come under state management...
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Squid row
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 6/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...high-tech, but it works for the squid. Once the command is received...speed," says Hanlon, who dives for squids in the cold waters off Chatham and...Young realized that studying the squid nerve would be useful in understanding...
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Squid.(seafood industry)
Magazine article from: Seafood Business; 1/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; The United States continues to import more squid to satisfy consumers' craving for calamari Squid is so popular these days that it's being...everyone from chefs to Internet Web sites. Squid has become so mainstream that a national foodservice...
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SQUID ARE RESEARCHER'S `FAVORITE GUYS'
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 11/7/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...for one thing and one thing only. "The squid are here," he calls out, pointing to...filled with dozens of long-finned Atlantic squid 12 to 18 inches in length, typical in every way as far as squid are concerned. They are, says DeGiorgis...
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Squid
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
...x201D; A group of squid-like animals called...rod or pen of modern squids. Reproduction in squids...mollusks. Species of squids are found in all oceans...The range of size of squids is extremely wide. The smallest squid, with one of the longest...
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squid
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
squid, predatory cephalopod molluscs of the order Teuthoidea. The 298 species of squid range in size from 2 centimetres (1 in.) to 20 metres (65 ft) in the giant squid (Architeuthis dux). The fast-swimming species...
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Are Giant Squids the True Sea Monsters?
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of the Unusual and Unexplained
Are Giant Squids the True Sea Monsters? T he giant squid, one of the most terrifying...of an unknown species of squid that if not giant squids were certainly very large...what may be a new species of squid 13 to 23 feet long gliding...
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squids
Book article from: A Dictionary of Zoology
squids See TEUTHOIDEA .
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SQUID
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
SQUID / skwid / • n. Physics a device used in particular in sensitive magnetometers, which consists of a superconducting...
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