lusca

English

Etymology

Clipping of Mollusca. (Mol)lusca; a phylum containing octopus, squid, cuttlefish, and other cephalopods.

Noun

lusca

  1. 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

  1. inflection of luscus:
    1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
    2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Adjective

luscā

  1. ablative feminine singular of luscus
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