squid

«squid» in Mova's school dictionary: A sea animal with a long soft body, eight arms and two… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a squid; plural squid or squids)

meaning for a pupil

1) A sea animal with a long soft body, eight arms and two longer tentacles, which can squirt ink to escape from danger. tree →

2) The flesh of this animal eaten as food, often fried in rings called calamari. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science lessons, squid are molluscs (related to octopuses and snails) with no backbone. Pupils learn they swim fast by squirting water and hide with clouds of ink. The giant squid is one of the largest animals in the sea. In maths: a squid has 8 arms and 2 tentacles, 10 limbs in all. Phrases: «giant squid», «squid ink», «fried squid».

examples

• A squid has eight arms and two long tentacles. tree →
• The squid squirted ink and swam away from the shark. tree →
• The giant squid lives deep in the ocean. tree →
• We ate fried squid rings at the beach café. tree →
• Squid have no bones in their bodies. tree →
• Three squid have thirty limbs altogether. tree →
• The diver saw a small squid glowing in the dark water. tree →
• They were like no walrus, sea lion, seal, bear, whale, shark, fish, squid, or scallop that Kotick had ever seen before. tree →

note

Plural is usually «squid» (three squid), sometimes «squids». Trap: a squid is not an octopus; an octopus has 8 arms and no long tentacles, a squid has 8 arms + 2 tentacles. In maths problems, count 10 limbs per squid if arms and tentacles are both counted.

In the corpora

• A squid has 8 arms and 2 longer tentacles, and like an octopus it has 3 hearts.
• Sperm whales dive deep to hunt giant squid, and many sperm whales carry round scars left by the squid's suckers.
• A squid moves fast by jet propulsion: it squirts water out through a funnel called a siphon and shoots the other way.
• A squid or cuttlefish has eight arms plus two longer tentacles with suckers only on their wide tips, ten limbs in all.
• Octopuses and squid squirt dark ink and jet away, and some squid make an ink blob shaped like themselves as a decoy.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «squid» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.