cuttlefish bone

English

Etymology

A cuttlefish bone.

From cuttlefish +‎ bone.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌkʌtl̩fɪʃ ˈbəʊn/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌkʌt(ə)lˌfɪʃ ˈboʊn/, [-ɾ(ə)l-]

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -əʊn
• Hyphenation: cut‧tle‧fish bone

Noun

cuttlefish bone (plural cuttlefish bones)

1. The calcareous, oval-shaped internal shell of a cuttlefish (order Sepiida), originally used in powdered form as an antacid and for absorbing moisture or polishing objects, and now chiefly as a dietary supplement for cage birds.

   Synonyms: cuttlebone, (archaic) sepiostaire, (archaic) sepium, (archaic) osselet

Related terms

• cuttlefish

Translations

internal shell of a cuttlefish

• Arabic: لسان البحر
• Catalan: os de sípia m
• Chinese:

  Hokkien: 墨賊船／墨贼船 (ba̍k-cha̍t-chûn, ba̍t-cha̍t-chûn)

  Mandarin: 海螵蛸 (zh) (hǎipiāoxiāo), 螵蛸 (zh) (piāoxiāo) (literary), 烏賊骨／乌贼骨 (wūzéigǔ)

• Czech: sépiová kost f
• Dutch: schild (nl) n
• Finnish: valaansuomu
• French: os de seiche (fr) m, sépion (fr) m
• Galician: pan cenzo m
• German: Schulp (de) m
• Greek: σουπιοκόκαλο (el) n (soupiokókalo)

  Ancient Greek: σήπιον n (sḗpion)

• Hawaiian: puna
• Italian: osso de seppia m
• Japanese: 甲 (ja) (こう, kō)
• Khmer: អណ្ដាតសមុទ្រ (ɑndaat sa’mot)
• Korean: 오징어뼈 (ojing'eoppyeo)
• Macedonian: си́пина ко́ска f (sípina kóska)
• Malay: tulang sotong
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hvalsprø

• Persian: کف دریا
• Polish: kość mątwia f
• Portuguese: siba (pt) f
• Russian: кость каракатицы (kostʹ karakaticy)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: please add this translation if you can

  Roman sipina kȏst f

• Spanish: jibión m
• Tamil: கணவாய்த் தோடு (kaṇavāyt tōṭu)
• Thai: ลิ้นทะเล (lín-tá-lee)
• Turkish: mürekkep balığı kemiği
• Ukrainian: кі́стка карака́тиці (kístka karakátyci)
• Welsh: asgwrn ystifflog m, bron alarch f
• West Flemish: zêeschuum

See also

• gladius
• pen

Further reading

• cuttlebone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia