vampire squid

English

Noun

vampire squid

1. A small deep-sea cephalopod, Vampyroteuthis infernalis, sole species of its order, found in temperate and tropical oceans.
   • 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 229:

     The Vampire squid – which is actually an octopodiform and not a squid, and looks like an apparition from an impossibly ancient dream – is harmless to humans.

Translations

sea animal

• French: vampire des enfers (fr) m
• Japanese: 蝙蝠蛸 (こうもりだこ, kōmoridako)
• Polish: wampirzyca (pl) f
• Portuguese: lula-vampira-do-inferno f
• Swedish: vampyrbläckfisk (sv) c