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Sepia

Sepia

1 9.3
A group of sea animals called cuttlefish often found in the Mediterranean
  • proper noun
  • /ˈsiːpiə/
  • Specialized
translation icon : sepia
  • Got you on Snapchat and sepia toned the hell out of everything.
  • Sepia tones
  • Sepia portraits

Examples

  • I was Miss Sepia runner-up of 1952.

    Drop Squad (1994)

  • Sepia and stone.

    Fiction book (2000)

  • While he sawed wood and sang work songs, we cut pictures out of Ebony and Sepia.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • B&W / Sepia

    Blog text (8)

  • Graduation Goggles – Knitting in Sepia

    Blog text (9)

  • Sketched in sepia Pitt pen (S) in the large Moleskine cahier with the Paul Wang cover.

    Blog text (18)

  • The giant cuttlefish, known scientifically as Sepia apama, is native to the waters of the Mediterranean.

  • Researchers studied the mating habits of the Sepia species found in the coastal regions of southern Europe.

  • In the aquarium, we observed a Sepia gracefully changing colors as it swam among the rocks.

Synonyms

genus Sepia
vsSepia
  • Specialized
9.9

A group of cuttlefish species

focuses on species mainly in the Mediterranean and nearby seas

Compounds

genus Sepia
  • Specialized
9.9

A group of cuttlefish species

Surface Forms

Sepia main

Etymology

Sepia comes from the old Greek word sepia, which meant 'cuttlefish'. Artists used the dark 'ink' from these animals to make brown drawings, so 'sepia' now names both the cuttlefish and the warm brown tone made by its ink.