- class Cephalopoda
- nounoctopuses; squids; cuttlefish; pearly nautilus• Syn: ↑Cephalopoda• Hypernyms: ↑class• Member Holonyms: ↑Mollusca, ↑phylum Mollusca• Member Meronyms:
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class Cephalopoda
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Cephalopoda — noun octopuses; squids; cuttlefish; pearly nautilus • Syn: ↑class Cephalopoda • Hypernyms: ↑class • Member Holonyms: ↑Mollusca, ↑phylum Mollusca • Member Meronyms … Useful english dictionary
Cephalopoda — Ceph a*lop o*da (s[e^]f [.a]*l[o^]p [ o]*d[.a]), n. pl. [NL., gr. Gr. kefalh head + poda: cf. F. c[ e]phalopode.] (Zo[ o]l.) The highest class of Mollusca. [1913 Webster] Note: They have, around the front of the head, a group of elongated… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Cephalopoda — Ceph·a·lop·o·da .sef ə läp əd ə n pl a class of mollusks including the squids, cuttlefishes, and octopuses that have a tubular siphon under the head, a group of muscular arms around the front of the head which are usu. furnished with suckers,… … Medical dictionary
cephalopoda — n. highest class of Mollusca (Biology) … English contemporary dictionary
Cephalopod — Cephalopods Temporal range: Devonian – Recent[1] (Stem groups from Cambrian)[2] … Wikipedia
cephalopod — /sef euh leuh pod /, n. 1. any mollusk of the class Cephalopoda, having tentacles attached to the head, including the cuttlefish, squid, and octopus. adj. 2. Also, cephalopodic, cephalopodous /sef euh lop euh deuhs/. belonging or pertaining to… … Universalium
mollusk — molluskan, molluscan /meuh lus keuhn/, adj., n. mollusklike, adj. /mol euhsk/, n. any invertebrate of the phylum Mollusca, typically having a calcareous shell of one, two, or more pieces that wholly or partly enclose the soft, unsegmented body,… … Universalium
Bigfin reef squid — Not to be confused with Bigfin squid. Bigfin reef squid A bigfin reef squid from the Tokyo Sea Life Park, Tokyo, Japan … Wikipedia
Taxonomy of commonly fossilised invertebrates — Although the phylogenetic classification of sub vertebrate animals (both extinct and extant) remains a work in progress, the following taxonomy attempts to be useful by combining both traditional (old) and new (21st century) paleozoological… … Wikipedia
Coleoidea — Temporal range: Devonian or Carboniferous–Recent … Wikipedia
