calamari

noun
/kæləˈmɑːɹi/

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian calamari, plural of calamaro, from Latin calamarius, from calamus, from Ancient Greek κάλαμος (kálamos, “reed, ink pen”).

  1. derived from κάλαμος
  2. derived from calamarius
  3. borrowed from calamari

Definitions

  1. Squid as food, especially cooked in the form of calamari rings.

  2. Squid, the mollusk.

  3. A surname from Italian.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for calamari. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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