From the Greek kalamos, meaning "pen", comes this ink-squirting squid name
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jeopardy/2777_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  RELIGION | Quakers is the popular name for members of the Religious .... the Greek kalamos, meaning "pen", comes this ink-squirting squid name | calamari.
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calamar | Spanish-English Word Connections  Jan 29, 2014 ... ... for squirting a black liquid into the water so a predator can't see it well. ... but the Romans also took to using the word to designate 'a reed pen. ... in meaning to 'squid,' presumably because of the animal's black ink. .... but Latin had taken calamus from Greek kalamos in the first place. ... Name (required).
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2010 Science on Nantucket - Yesterday's Island, Today's Nantucket ...  Jun 24, 2010 ... The owner told me very few commercial fishermen fish for squid and what catch ... will squirt a cloud of inky material from its ink sac when in danger. ... to be much more aggressive and more likely to come to the surface. .... Calamarium in turn derives from Greek kalamos meaning "reed," "tube" or "pen,...
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Squid/Cuttlefish: Squid (Loligo vulgaris) and Cuttlefish (Sepia spp.)  Calamarium in turn derives from Greek kalamos meaning "reed," "tube" or "pen". ... cephalopods (meaning head-legs they all have ink sacs for squirting when in...
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Print Squid (Loligo vulgaris) and Cuttlefish (Sepia spp.)  Calamarium in turn derives from Greek kalamos meaning "reed," "tube" or "pen". ... cephalopods (meaning head-legs they all have ink sacs for squirting when in...
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The Chambered Nautilus - Dictionary definition of The Chambered ...  Its subject is the nautilus, a sea creature that lives inside a spiral shell. ... is grounded in the world of mid-nineteenth-century Boston, sometimes called the .... refers to the beautiful and seductive water nymphs of ancient Greek mythology that ... of the nautilus to a ship, although Holmes's choice of words is characterized by...
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Squid as food - Wikipedia  Squid is a popular food in many parts of the world. Calamari is a culinary name for squid, especially for dishes from the Mediterranean, notably fried squid (fried calamari). There are many ways of preparing and cooking squid, with every country and region having its own ... In Spain and Italy, squid or cuttlefish ink is eaten in dishes such as paella,...
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THALIA (Thaleia) - Greek Goddess Muse of Comedy & Bucolic Poetry  Thalia was one of the nine Muses, the ancient Greek goddesses of music, song and dance. ... Her name was derived from the Greek word thaleia, meaning blooming. ... I [a bird] sing with you in the groves and on the mountain tops, tiotiotiotinx. ... of comedies], Thalia [muse of comedy] would have rejoiced and praised his...
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jeopardy/1301_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  FOOD STUFF | Spinach is added to pasta to turn it green & "ink" from this ocean cephalopod is added to turn it charcoal gray | squid. right: Dave. Wrong:.
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J! Archive - Show #4517, aired 2004-04-06  The name of this 1877 invention is from the Greek for "sound writing" .... Mythological name sometimes given to Mount Acha & Gibraltar...
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Show #5178 - Wednesday, February 28, 2007 - J! Archive  "Moistureless" name for the material also known as plasterboard ... This Italian name for squid is a reference to its ink...
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Ocean Watch  Sea pens were so named because the upper parts of their bodies look like the ... The animal's bottoms, however, look like tulip bulbs buried in sand or mud. ... by eight tentacles (that's the octo in octocorals, the scientific name for soft corals). ... If disturbed, a sea pen can pull up its orbed anchor, inflate its body with water and...
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Jeopary Questions page 2036 - '89 ANNIVERSARIES - TriviaBistro ...  When it invites you up to see its etchings, you'll see stamps & dollar bills  WON THE ... READING: From the Greek for "bad word", this disorder is marked by difficulty in recognizing written language  FUN WITH ... READING: From the Greek for "sound", these sounds represented by letters might get you "hooked on" them.
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WEB's New York Times Crossword Solution @ NYTCrossword.com ...  Nov 2, 2015 ... The name "onyx" comes from the Greek word for "fingernail", .... Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; ... Viruses, worms, trojan horses and spyware are all covered by the term. .... like magnetite (the most magnetic of all minerals) and hematite (the most ..... Paul who won a Nobel in Physics : DIRAC
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Gastropod - definition of gastropod by The Free Dictionary  [From New Latin Gastropoda, class name : gastro- + -poda, -pod.] ... Word History Snails, conchs, whelks, and many other similar animals with shells are all called gastropods by scientists. The word gastropod comes from Greek and means "stomach foot," a name that owes its ... physa - any member of the genus Physa.
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Pterodactyl - Northwest Seed & Pet  Pterodactyl (derived from the Greek words (ptero) (wing) and (dactyl) (finger) meaning "winged finger", "wing-finger" or "finger-wing") is a common ... Prehistoric flying reptiles of this type are sometimes referred to as dinosaurs, ... of extinct aquatic reptiles, such as ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, and mosasaurs.
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etymology - Where on Earth is "penguin" from? - English Language ...  Apr 7, 2015 ... The word penguin is derived from Welsh; pen refers to "head", while gywn ... by saying Etymology: Probably Welsh pen gwyn = white head, and (eventually! ... may have given its name to the multitude of plump flightless birds...
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Ink - definition of ink by The Free Dictionary  Word / Article ... Slang. to sign one's name to: to ink a contract. ... meaning "pen case"because of its long tapering shell and its ink; it is also spelled calamary.
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jeopardy/1094_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 15) ... Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue.) The blue morpho's name comes from "morpho", meaning "shapely", one of the epithets of this Greek goddess of love | Aphrodite ... IT'S GREEK MYTH TO ME | Pan hung out a lot with this wine god, known to some as Bacchus |...
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Full text of "The world book, organized knowledge in story and picture;"  On the front end of the body, called the cephalothorax, there are two pairs of ... mother for several days after birth, cling- ing to her body with their tiny pincers. ... This Gaelic tongue, affected by the Latin and French influence of the fifteenth and ...... a free-moving mollusk found in the warmer parts of the ocean, so called be-...
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jeopardy/1802_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  LET'S HAVE SOME SUSHI | Calling it ika is probably better than this English term, or worse, "10-armed cephalopod" | squid. right: Tricia. Wrong: Value: $1000.