Plural of calamary; multiple squid or cuttlefish, particularly in culinary or scientific contexts.
Plural form of calamary (an older or variant form of calamari). The '-ary' suffix is a variant ending that English applied to the Spanish-Arabic root word, showing how English has multiple ways of pluralizing borrowed words.
English has wildly inconsistent plural rules for borrowed words—some people say 'calamari' (keeping the Italian plural), some say 'calamaries,' and some say 'calmars'—it's a beautiful mess showing how living languages constantly negotiate with each other!
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