loligon.
/ləʊˈlʌɪɡəʊ/ A genus of cephalopods; an individual of this genus, a squid. ¶In the first quot. used figuratively and apparently by mistake for torpedo.
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a1626 L. Andrewes 96 Serm.: Holy Ghost (1629) xv. 763 St. Paul calls them the Lolligoe's of the Land. His word is καταναρκεῖν; the six daies and the seventh, to them both alike.
1658 Sir T. Browne Garden of Cyrus v, in Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall 190 The cuttle fish and Loligo.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Loligo (Lat.), the Calimary Fish, whose Bloud is like Ink, as well as that of the Cuttle-fish.]
1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 540/1 In Loligo the coats of the corresponding veins..present..a spongy thickening.
1854 H. Miller My Schools & Schoolmasters (1858) 467 The loligo..laid hold of the pebbles, apparently to render its abduction as difficult as possible.
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