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GENUS SPIRULA
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Genus of small cephalopods with many-chambered spiral shells resembling those of the extinct belemnites
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Spirula" is a kind of...):
mollusk genus (a genus of mollusks)
Meronyms (members of "genus Spirula"):
spirula; Spirula peronii (a small tropical cephalopod of the genus Spirula having prominent eyes and short arms and a many-chambered shell coiled in a flat spiral)
Holonyms ("genus Spirula" is a member of...):
family Spirulidae; Spirulidae (coextensive with the genus Spirula; included in the order Belemnoidea in some older classifications)
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