Cephalopod Collective Noun

[cephalopodcast]

Are there collective nouns for cephalopods in general? Just for octopuses? Squids? Etc?

What do you call a group of octopuses? A tangle?


The Collective Noun Page

 

[monty]

a shoal of squid. I've never heard of a word for octos or cuttles, maybe because they tend not to congregate en masse so much.

 

[Jean]

We go with a school of squid, nothing for the others but a cuddle of cuttlefish sounds good

J

 

[cephalopodcast]

Well, I have not found anything official so far. So in the absence of precedence, I am going to propose the following: An Embrace of Octopuses. As pointed out, we don't usually find octopuses hanging out in numbers. Except maybe a mother with her clutch. But there you go. Anyone else have other ideas?

 

[Jean]

A squad of squid? A convention of cephalopods?

 

[Izzy]

I like cuddle of cuttlefish and Embrace of octopuses.

How about a "clunk of nautalises"

 

[tonmo]

Deja vu!

 

[Alcimar]

A colony of octopuses.
Yes, they live in groups, deep in the sea.