CALAMARI

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does calamari mean? 

• CALAMARI (noun)
  The noun CALAMARI has 1 sense:

1. (Italian cuisine) squid prepared as food

  Familiarity information: CALAMARI used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CALAMARI (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(Italian cuisine) squid prepared as food

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

calamari; calamary; squid

Hypernyms ("calamari" is a kind of...):

seafood (edible fish (broadly including freshwater fish) or shellfish or roe etc)

Domain category:

cookery; cooking; preparation (the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat)

Domain region:

Italia; Italian Republic; Italy (a republic in southern Europe on the Italian Peninsula; was the core of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire between the 4th century BC and the 5th century AD)

Holonyms ("calamari" is a part of...):

squid (widely distributed fast-moving ten-armed cephalopod mollusk having a long tapered body with triangular tail fins)