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SPIRULA PERONII
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
A small tropical cephalopod of the genus Spirula having prominent eyes and short arms and a many-chambered shell coiled in a flat spiral
Synonyms:
spirula; Spirula peronii
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Spirula peronii" is a kind of...):
decapod (cephalopods having eight short tentacles plus two long ones)
Holonyms ("Spirula peronii" is a member of...):
genus Spirula (genus of small cephalopods with many-chambered spiral shells resembling those of the extinct belemnites)
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