teuthis
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Ancient Greek τευθίς (teuthís).
Noun[edit]
teuthis
- (Ancient Greece) A small squid.
- 1862, Aristotle, translated by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, History of Animals:
- “[…] Compared with one another, the teuthis, or calamary, is long-shaped, and the sepia flat-shaped; and of the calamaries the so-called teuthus is much bigger than the teuthis; for teuthi have been found as much as five ells long.”