GENUS OCTOPUS

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Meaning:

Type genus of the family Octopodidae

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("genus Octopus" is a kind of...):

mollusk genus (a genus of mollusks)

Meronyms (members of "genus Octopus"):

devilfish; octopus (bottom-living cephalopod having a soft oval body with eight long tentacles)

Holonyms ("genus Octopus" is a member of...):

family Octopodidae; Octopodidae (a family of Octopoda)

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