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Webster 1913 Edition

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Noun.

[NL., fr. Gr. pref. [GREEK] + [GREEK], [GREEK], a kind of squid.]

(Zool.)

A genus of gigantic cephalopods, allied to the squids, found esp. in the North Atlantic and about New Zealand.

architeuthis

A giant squid (genus Architeuthis).
- 2009 September 14, Janet Maslin, “Fasten Your Seat Belts, There’s Code to Crack”, in New York Times:
  It is located within an immense, highly guarded building that also houses Mars meteorite ALH-84001 and an architeuthis (a k a giant squid).