widely distributed fast-moving ten-armed cephalopod mollusk having a long tapered body with triangular tail fins
source: WordNet 3.0
Any one of numerous species of ten-armed cephalopods having a long, tapered body, and a caudal fin on each side; especially, any species of Loligo, Ommastrephes, and related genera. See Calamary, Decacerata, Dibranchiata.