loligo

L1O1L1I1G2O1

noun

A member of the Loligo genus of cephalopods; a squid.

OriginLatin lōlīgō →
RareScrabble 7
Ask AI about this wordChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

Meanings

nounloligo (plural loligos)

plural loligos

  1. A member of the Loligo genus of cephalopods; a squid.

    the learned may consider the Crystalline humour of the eye in the cuttle fish and Loligo.

    1658, Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus
    1 more example

    […]the loligos or squids, the sepias, and the argonauts or paper nautili, are among the best known of its representatives.

    1882 October, Popular Science, volume 21, number 46, page 755

Origin

  1. Latinlōlīgō
  2. Latinlōlīgō
  3. Englishloligo

Borrowed from Latin lōlīgō.

More words from Latin

Full word history & related roots →
Cite this entry
APA

loligo. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/loligo

MLA

“loligo.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/loligo. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “loligo,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/loligo.

Source: loligo on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.