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Cephalopod

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Noun

1. cephalopod, cephalopod mollusk

marine mollusk characterized by well-developed head and eyes and sucker-bearing tentacles

Adjective

2. cephalopod, cephalopodan

relating or belonging to the class Cephalopoda

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Cephalopod

see synonyms of cephalopod
noun
1. 
any marine mollusc of the class Cephalopoda, characterized by well-developed head and eyes and a ring of sucker-bearing tentacles. The group also includes the octopuses, squids, cuttlefish, and pearly nautilus
adjective also: cephalopodic, cephalopodous (ˌsɛfəˈlɒpədəs )
2. 
of, relating to, or belonging to the Cephalopoda

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Cephalopod

see synonyms of cephalopod
noun
any of a class (Cephalopoda) of marine mollusks having a distinct head with highly developed eyes, varying numbers of arms, with suckers, attached to the head about the mouth, and a saclike fin-bearing mantle, as an octopus, squid, or cuttlefish

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Cephalopod

see synonyms of cephalopod
n.
Any of various carnivorous marine mollusks of the class Cephalopoda, having a large head, a mouth with a chitinous beak surrounded by arms or tentacles, and in most species, an ink sac containing a dark fluid used for defense, and including the octopuses, squids, cuttlefishes, and nautiluses.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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