noun. Any of various aquatic animals having horns or thought to have a sinister appearance, including the devil rays, the manta, and certain octopuses and squids.

noun. Any large cuttlefish, as an octopus or an architeuthis.

noun. Lacepedia cataphracta, a fish found in Australian waters.

noun. In zoology, a name of various marine animals of large size or uncanny appearance.

noun. A huge ray (Manta birostris or Cephaloptera vampyrus) of the Gulf of Mexico and Southern Atlantic coasts. Several other related species take the same name. See cephaloptera.

noun. A large cephalopod, especially the very large species of Octopus and Architeuthis. See octopus.

noun. The gray whale of the Pacific coast. See gray whale.

noun. The goosefish or angler (Lophius), and other allied fishes. See angler.

noun. Any of several unrelated marine animals

noun. extremely large pelagic tropical ray that feeds on plankton and small fishes; usually harmless but its size make it dangerous if harpooned

noun. bottom-living cephalopod having a soft oval body with eight long tentacles

noun. medium-sized greyish-black whale of the northern Pacific

"They had not intended to spend the afternoon, but found themselves too fascinated to turn away from the breakers bursting upon the rocks and from the many kinds of colorful sea life starfish, crabs, mussels, sea anemones, and, once, in a rock-pool, a small devilfish that chilled their blood when it cast the hooded net of its body around the small crabs they tossed to it."

baleen whale  octopod  whalebone whale  

are-the  arquebus  arquebuse  bad-faith  body-blow  

angler  cephaloptera  devilfishes  gray whale  octopus