devilfish
- n medium-sized greyish-black whale of the northern Pacific
- n bottom-living cephalopod having a soft oval body with eight long tentacles
- n extremely large pelagic tropical ray that feeds on plankton and small fishes; usually harmless but its size make it dangerous if harpooned
- Caswell swims down several fathoms and dispatches the devilfish, slitting its ink sac with one blow of his trusty fish knife.
- In frozen horror, the revelers watch the apocalyptic "beast rise up out of the sea" in a fishing neta sinister, obscene, colossal devilfish.
- The Colorado River, which men have called "devilfish" and "Destiny", drains the Southwest without replenishing.