English
Etymology
From cuttlefish + bone.
Pronunciation
Noun
cuttlefish bone (plural cuttlefish bones)
- The calcareous, oval-shaped internal shell of a cuttlefish (order Sepiida), originally used in powdered form as an antacid and for absorbing moisture or polishing objects, and now chiefly as a dietary supplement for cage birds.
- Synonyms: cuttlebone, (archaic) sepiostaire, (archaic) sepium, (archaic) osselet
Translations
internal shell of a cuttlefish
- Arabic: لسان البحر
- Catalan: os de sípia m
- Chinese:
- Hokkien: 墨賊船 / 墨贼船 (ba̍k-cha̍t-chûn, ba̍t-cha̍t-chûn)
- Mandarin: 海螵蛸 (zh) (hǎipiāoxiāo), 螵蛸 (zh) (piāoxiāo) (literary), 烏賊骨 / 乌贼骨 (wūzéigǔ)
- Czech: sépiová kost f
- Dutch: schild (nl) n
- Finnish: valaansuomu
- French: os de seiche (fr) m, sépion (fr) m
- Galician: pan cenzo m
- German: Schulp (de) m
- Greek: σουπιοκόκαλο (el) n (soupiokókalo)
- Ancient Greek: σήπιον n (sḗpion)
- Hawaiian: puna
- Italian: osso de seppia m
- Japanese: 甲 (ja) (こう, kō)
- Khmer: អណ្ដាតសមុទ្រ (ɑndaat sa’mot)
- Korean: 오징어뼈 (ojing'eoppyeo)
- Macedonian: си́пина ко́ска f (sípina kóska)
- Malay: tulang sotong
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: hvalsprø
- Persian: کف دریا
- Polish: kość mątwia f
- Portuguese: siba (pt) f
- Russian: кость каракатицы (kostʹ karakaticy)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: please add this translation if you can
- Roman sipina kȏst f
- Spanish: jibión m
- Tamil: கணவாய்த் தோடு (kaṇavāyt tōṭu)
- Thai: ลิ้นทะเล (lín-tá-lee)
- Turkish: mürekkep balığı kemiği
- Ukrainian: кі́стка карака́тиці (kístka karakátyci)
- Welsh: asgwrn ystifflog m, bron alarch f
- West Flemish: zêeschuum
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