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OCTOPOD
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A cephalopod with eight arms but lacking an internal shell
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("octopod" is a kind of...):
cephalopod; cephalopod mollusk (marine mollusk characterized by well-developed head and eyes and sucker-bearing tentacles)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "octopod"):
devilfish; octopus (bottom-living cephalopod having a soft oval body with eight long tentacles)
Argonaut; Argonauta argo; nautilus; paper nautilus (cephalopod mollusk of warm seas whose females have delicate papery spiral shells)
Holonyms ("octopod" is a member of...):
Octopoda; order Octopoda (octopuses and paper nautilus)