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calamari

calamari

25 4.4
Cooked squid served as food, often fried and eaten before the main meal
  • noun
  • /ˌkæl.əˈmɑː.ri/
translation icon : calamar
  • At the Italian restaurant, the calamari is served with marinara sauce.
  • fried calamari
  • calamari salad
  • grilled calamari

More maybe like octopus, calamari, a shrimp or two.

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Examples

  • We have some calamari, clam chowder, fish and chips.

  • For dinner, we ordered crispy calamari with a lemon dipping sauce.

  • You go to a fish restaurant and you order calamari, what do you get?

  • My husband and I order fried calamari here in the States when it's on the menu.

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  • All right, I still need the calamari and the Caesar salad.

  • Our favorite calamari in the world is still what we had in the Qantas First Class lounge in Sydney.

  • My mouth was watering for fried calamari and calzone.

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  • To start, I ordered the calamari with a sweet chili drizzle and cilantro.

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  • For this, they've got my favorite fried calamari and my favorite mozzarella barata.

  • Martin Pena of Fisherman's Landing said he found lots of good calamari recipes on FoodTV.com.

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Synonyms

squid
vscalamari
14 1.6

Flesh of a sea animal often served fried or grilled

refers specifically to the prepared dish in Mediterranean or Italian cooking
calamary
vscalamari
4.1

A dish of cooked squid often served in Italian restaurants

has identical meaning but uses the more common standard spelling

Surface Forms

calamari singular
calamaris plural

Etymology

Calamari comes from Italian calamaro ('squid') and goes back to the Latin calamus ('reed') and calamarium ('ink pot') because squids make dark ink. So, the name calamari links the animal to its ink and is now used for the squid we eat.