English-French translations for cuttlefish

• pieuvre
• poulpe
• seiche
  Le tableau n'est pas très réjouissant pour l'anchois, la seiche, les poissons de fond, le merlu noir et la sardinelle. They do not paint a very optimistic picture for anchovy, cuttlefish, demersal fish, black hake and sardinella.
  Nous goûtions des plats de risotto au safran, de risotto aux champignons, de risotto à l'encre de seiche, comme il convient dans une ville comme Vercelli, où on cultive le riz. We were savouring saffron risotto, mushroom risotto and black risotto with cuttlefish, as is appropriate in a place such as Vercelli where rice is grown.

Definition of cuttlefish

• any of various squid-like cephalopods of the order Sepiida that have eight arms, two retractable tentacles, and a calcareous internal shell, and can eject a dark ink when threatened

Related words

• cuttle
• scuttle
• scuttlebutt
• cuttlebone
• cuttlefish bone
• scuttle off
• coal scuttle