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CEPHALOPOD

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

cephalopod; cephalopod mollusk

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("cephalopod" is a kind of...):

mollusc; mollusk; shellfish (invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cephalopod"):

chambered nautilus; nautilus; pearly nautilus (cephalopod of the Indian and Pacific oceans having a spiral shell with pale pearly partitions)

dibranch; dibranchiate; dibranchiate mollusk (cephalopods having two gills)

octopod (a cephalopod with eight arms but lacking an internal shell)

decapod (cephalopods having eight short tentacles plus two long ones)

Holonyms ("cephalopod" is a member of...):

Cephalopoda; class Cephalopoda (octopuses; squids; cuttlefish; pearly nautilus)

Derivation:

cephalopod (relating or belonging to the class Cephalopoda)

 II. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Relating or belonging to the class Cephalopoda

Synonyms:

cephalopod; cephalopodan

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

Cephalopoda (octopuses; squids; cuttlefish; pearly nautilus)

Derivation:

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

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