alright, i think thats clear. but what in the hell do things like squids have? dont tell me a beak because i dont want to hear it…
The word “beak” has, as one of its possible derivations, the Celtic bacc, meaning hook. So, yes, it does fit that a squid has a beak to eat with.
Turtles have beaks, too:
NO.
it MUST be called something else :@
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theres no need to become authoritative, friend. im merely searching for a different name that i KNOW the appendage has. i read it someplace before…lets stay calm, shall we?
Well, here’s more evidence that it’s simply called a “beak”. Perhaps you are thinking of one of the parts of the beak…?
FuneralUnicycle, do you remember anything at all about this alternative word? How long it was, what letter it started with?
Gee, Rockford, nice “moderator hat” and fake “edited by” code.
I’ve never heard it called anything else. Sidling over to an online thesaurus, I found:
aperture, beak, box, buss, cavity, chops, clam, crevice, delta, door, embouchement, entrance, estuary, firth, fly trap, funnel, gate, gills, gob, harbor, inlet, jaws, kisser, lips, mush, orifice, portal, rim, trap, yap
bill, mandible, neb, nib, nozzle, pecker, proboscis, projection, prow, snout
Perhaps you remember it as one of these?
well it certainly wasnt “mush” :\ maybe ive blocked it out…i am afraid of squids, you know. thanks for trying anyhow you guys!
I suspect we shall – shall you?
Your original question might have worked better had it been something along the lines of: “I know the hard thing in a squid is often called a beak. I was wondering if anyone knows another term.” (Uppercase letters inserted at no additional charge.)
I have heard this called a “cuttle” or “cuttlebone” but I don’t know if that’s right or just a back-formation from “cuttlefish.” I’ve also heard it called a “pen” and a “calamy” (said to be related to the latin word for pen). But I’ll admit these are vague recollections.
thats IT! thats it! thanks!
Actually, those words Xema provided don’t refer to the beak. They refer to a different structure that runs along the mantle of the squid.
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