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Webster 1913 Edition

Architeuthis

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Arˊchi-teu′this

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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.