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squid
/ skwid/
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n.
(pl. same or squids
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an elongated, fast-swimming cephalopod mollusk with ten arms (technically, eight arms and two long tentacles), typically able to change color. • Order Teuthoidea and Vampyromorpha, class Cephalopoda, in particular the common genus Loligo. See also giant squid.
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this mollusk used as food.
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an artificial bait for fish imitating a squid in form.
∎ military slang
a sailor.
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v.
(squid·ded, squid·ding) [intr.]
fish using squid as bait.
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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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SQUIDs made from high temperature superconductors. (includes bibliography) (thin film technology - Superconducting Quantum Interference Devices)
Magazine article from: Solid State Technology; 5/1/1990; ; 700+ words
; ...size. Two kinds of SQUID presently exist: dc SQUIDs and rf SQUIDs (Fig...than that of the bare SQUID which is typically limited...Low [T.sub.c] SQUIDs Figure 4 shows a thin...T.sub.c], dc SQUID [4]. The center hole...
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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: 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 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 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.(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's in: British diners develop taste for tentacles
Newspaper article from: Belfast Telegraph; 3/31/2008; 700+ words
; ...meaning it is mostly just squid being caught in the trawls...environmental aspects of UK squid stocks will be published later...Seafish, said: "By monitoring squids' behavioural patterns, we...delicacy for years to come." Squid usually grow no longer than...
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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 FRY
Newspaper article from: Monterey County Weekly; 8/30/2007; ; 629 words
; BITE OF LIFE...Squid isn't scared of much: Pump nacho cheese. Mannequins. Coffee breath. But even Squid, despite being equipped with barbed clubs...shiny wingtips, that is: lawyers. Seems Squid's eloquent ink can act as a chum perfume...
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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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