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lusca en · NOUN

Etymology

Clipping of Mollusca, a phylum containing octopus, squid, cuttlefish, and other cephalopods.

Meanings

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