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n.
A pigment prepared from the ink, or black secretion, of the sepia, or cuttlefish. Treated with caustic potash, it has a rich brown color; and this mixed with a red forms Roman sepia. Cf. India ink, under India.
a.
Of a dark brown color, with a little red in its composition; also, made of, or done in, sepia.
n.
A painting all of one color, as a sepia painting, or an India painting.
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A conical calcareous fossil, tapering to a point at the lower extremity, with a conical cavity at the other end, where it is ordinarily broken; but when perfect it contains a small chambered cone, called the phragmocone, prolonged, on one side, into a delicate concave blade; the thunderstone. It is the internal shell of a cephalopod related to the sepia, and belonging to an extinct family. The belemnites are found in rocks of the Jurassic and Cretaceous ages.
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Of or pertaining to sepia; done in sepia; as, a sepic drawing.
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A sucker of the sepia or cuttlefish and related animals.
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of Sepia
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The common European cuttlefish.
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A genus comprising the common cuttlefish and numerous similar species. See Illustr. under Cuttlefish.
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A cephalopod of the genus Sepia, having an internal shell, large eyes, and ten arms furnished with denticulated suckers, by means of which it secures its prey. The name is sometimes applied to dibranchiate cephalopods generally.
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Like or pertaining to the cuttlefishes of the genus Sepia.
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of Sepia
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