lusca
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English
Etymology
Clipping of Mollusca. (Mol)lusca; a phylum containing octopus, squid, cuttlefish, and other cephalopods.
Noun
lusca
- A folkloric sea monster of the Caribbean resembling a giant octopus/squid, or giant cuttlefish; or shark-headed cephalopod-tentacle armed creature (sharktopus).
- 1970, National Geographic:
- The lusca, he said, was a terrible creature, like a monstrous octopus or cuttlefish.
- 1999, Robert Forrest Burgess, The Cave Divers:
- For the same lusca had attacked his boat only a few weeks later.
- 2008, Ryan Ver Berkmoes, Amy C Balfour, Paul Clammer, Michael Grosberg, Caribbean Islands:
- […] the half-dragon, half-octopus Lusca, which whirlpools its victims to a watery death.
Anagrams
Latin
Adjective
lusca
- inflection of luscus:
Adjective
luscā