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Architeuthis

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Ar`chi`teu´this
n.1.(Zool.) A genus of gigantic cephalopods, allied to the squids, found esp. in the North Atlantic and about New Zealand.
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Noun1.Architeuthisarchiteuthis - largest mollusk known about but never seen (to 60 feet long)
giant squid
squid - widely distributed fast-moving ten-armed cephalopod mollusk having a long tapered body with triangular tail fins
genus Architeuthis - giant squid


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The giant squid, or Architeuthis dux (ar-keh-TOOTH-us duks), owes its nickname to its jumbo size--females can measure 18 meters (60 feet).
One gigantic mystery: scientists use clues to reveal the secretive ... by Janes, Patricia / Science World
After frightening an entire generation out of the ocean with ``Jaws,'' author and oceanographer Peter Benchley has created a new underwater terror - architeuthis dux or the great squid - the world's largest invertebrate.
BENCHLEY'S BEAST: SQUID ON A RAMPAGE by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Unlike the 9-foot 440-pound giant squid Architeuthis dux that washed onto a Massachusetts beach years earlier, this new squid has hooks instead of cuplike suckers on its arms, says Clyde Roper, a zoologist with the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.
Denizens of the deep by Science News
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