cuttle

1. 1.

   ten-armed oval-bodied cephalopod with narrow fins as long as the body and a large calcareous internal shell

   Synonymscuttlefish

   Broaderdecapod

   Part ofSepia

Other forms of cuttle

plural

cuttles·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cuttle

What does cuttle mean?

cuttle means "ten-armed oval-bodied cephalopod with narrow fins as long as the body and a large calcareous internal shell".

How many syllables are in cuttle?

cuttle has 2 syllables: cut-tle. The stress falls on "cut".

What is another word for cuttle?

Close synonyms include cuttlefish. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cuttle a common word?

cuttle is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.