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CEPHALOPOD
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Marine mollusk characterized by well-developed head and eyes and sucker-bearing tentacles
Synonyms:
cephalopod; cephalopod mollusk
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("cephalopod" is a kind of...):
mollusc; mollusk; shellfish (invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cephalopod"):
chambered nautilus; nautilus; pearly nautilus (cephalopod of the Indian and Pacific oceans having a spiral shell with pale pearly partitions)
dibranch; dibranchiate; dibranchiate mollusk (cephalopods having two gills)
octopod (a cephalopod with eight arms but lacking an internal shell)
decapod (cephalopods having eight short tentacles plus two long ones)
Holonyms ("cephalopod" is a member of...):
Cephalopoda; class Cephalopoda (octopuses; squids; cuttlefish; pearly nautilus)
Derivation:
cephalopod (relating or belonging to the class Cephalopoda)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Relating or belonging to the class Cephalopoda
Synonyms:
cephalopod; cephalopodan
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
Cephalopoda (octopuses; squids; cuttlefish; pearly nautilus)
Derivation:
cephalopod (marine mollusk characterized by well-developed head and eyes and sucker-bearing tentacles)
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