Squid

Any one of numerous species of cephalopods with ten arms, a long, tapering body, and a caudal fin on each side. The squid is abundant in the North Atlantic, and is used as bait in cod¬ fishing. It is also known as calamary, and has a sac of ink-like fluid, which it discharges from a siphon tube to hide it from its foes. (S0.0Sepia.)