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squid
any of a number of long, slender, carnivorous cephalopod sea mollusks (esp. order Teuthoidea) having eight arms and two long tentacles: small squid are used as food and for fish bait
noun
an electronic device for detecting and measuring very weak magnetic fields and currents, esp. the minute ones in and around the brain and heart
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