vampire squid

English

Vampire squid illustration (1.1).

Noun

vampire squid (plural vampire squids or vampire squid)

  1. Any of the order Vampyromorphida of cephalopods with eight arms which are united by a web of skin.
    1. (in particular) A small cephalopod (Vampyroteuthis infernalis), found throughout temperate and tropical oceans in extreme deep sea conditions.
      • 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 229:
        The Vampire squid – which is actually an octopodiform and not a squid, and looks like an apparition from an impossibly ancient dream – is harmless to humans.

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