ink sac in English

noun

large gland of cephalopods (such as squid, octopus etc.) which contains ink that is ejected to distract predators

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1. The arms are fully webbed and has no ink sac , which is unlike either one.

2. Like them, the Belemnites had an ink sac, but, unlike the squid, they had ten arms of roughly equal length, and no tentacles.

3. The French name, calamar, comes from the Italian word calamaro, derived from the Latin Calamarium or "ink well", in reference to the ink sac found in the squid's head

4. Any of various carnivorous marine mollusks of the class Cephalopoda, having a large head, a mouth with a chitinous beak surrounded by arms or tentacles, and in most species, an ink sac containing a dark fluid used for defense, and including the octopuses, squids, cuttlefishes, and nautiluses