Lusca
Full definition of lusca
Noun
lusca
- A folkloric sea monster of the Caribbean resembling a giant octopus.
- 1970, National GeographicThe lusca, he said, was a terrible creature, like a monstrous octopus or cuttlefish.
- 1999, Robert Forrest Burgess, The Cave DiversFor the same lusca had attacked his boat only a few weeks later.
- 2008, Ryan Ver Berkmoes, Amy C Balfour, Paul Clammer, Michael Grosberg, Caribbean Islands...or the half-dragon, half-octopus Lusca, which whirlpools its victims to a watery death.