Crossword-Solution: LOLIGO
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Loligo | n. | A genus of cephalopods, including numerous species of squids, common on the coasts of America and Europe. They are much used for fish bait. |
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| type of squid | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
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greedy person
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Sentences with LOLIGO (5)
Our existing _Nautilus_ has its representative species in every great formation, from the oldest to the newest; and _Loligo_, the squid of modern seas, appears in the lias, or at the bottom of the mesozoic series, in a form, at most, specifically different from its living congeners.
Our existing 'Nautilus' has its representative species in every great formation, from the oldest to the newest; and 'Loligo', the squid of modern seas, appears in the lias, or at the bottom of the mesozoic series, in a form, at most, specifically different from its living congeners.
The head of the goddess is a conventionalized octopus; to that was added a body consisting of a _Loligo_; and, to give greater definiteness to this remarkable process of building up the form of the goddess, conventional representations of her arms and legs (and in some of the sculptures also the _pudendum muliebre_) were added.
These creatures are not fish in the true sense of the word, but "molluscs," of the genus _Loligo_; and the name given to them by the whalers of the Pacific is that of "Flying Squid." CHAPTER SEVEN.
How, then, does it exist? Where finds it the food necessary to sustain existence? In a word, it captures its prey in the air; and this commonly consists in the various species of flying-fish, and also the _loligo_, or "flying squids." When these are forced out of their own proper element to seek safety in the air, the frigate-bird, ready to pounce down from aloft, clutches them before they can get back into the equally unsafe element out of which they have sprung.