Definition of "devilfish" []

• See manta. (noun)
• See octopus. (noun)
• See gray whale. (noun)

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• "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."
• "With a heave and a jerk appeared the entire squid, a proper devilfish or octopus."
• "Born again ... out the window he can almost see the spot where the devilfish crawled in from the rocks."