🇬🇧🇨🇳 cuttlefish - 乌贼 : English Lesson

Meaning of "cuttlefish" ("乌贼"), detailed definition, and a short video lesson below.

A cuttlefish is a sea animal that lives near the bottom of the ocean, usually close to the coast. It has a soft body with eight arms and two longer tentacles that it uses to grab food, like small fish and crabs. Inside its body it has a special hard part called a cuttlebone, which helps it float. Cuttlefish can change their color and patterns very quickly to hide from enemies or talk to other cuttlefish. They can also squirt dark ink to confuse predators and swim away safely.

Watch and listen to this English flashcard to understand the word in more detail, with an easy example sentence.

Grandpa said he wished he were a cuttlefish so he could change colors instead of changing shirts.

The lazy cuttlefish just lay in the shallow waters pretending to be a rock, which is also my plan for Mondays.

The cuttlefish changed from brown to white to stripy, like it couldn’t decide what to wear to dinner.

The cuttlefish is like an underwater artist that paints on itself and then runs away in an ink explosion.

Scientists say cuttlefish are amazing at remembering things, so somewhere in the ocean one probably still remembers that time you swam funny at the beach.

A diver saw a cuttlefish hide by a rock. The cuttlefish, small and soft, waved many arms and changed color like a moving painting. When a crab nosed too close, the cuttlefish squirted dark ink and the cuttlefish slipped through a narrow hole. The diver smiled; the cuttlefish was safe and gone.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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