CEPHALOPOD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cephalopod mean? 

• CEPHALOPOD (noun)
  The noun CEPHALOPOD has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: CEPHALOPOD used as a noun is very rare.

• CEPHALOPOD (adjective)
  The adjective CEPHALOPOD has 1 sense:

1. relating or belonging to the class Cephalopoda

  Familiarity information: CEPHALOPOD used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CEPHALOPOD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

cephalopod; cephalopod mollusk

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)

• CEPHALOPOD (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Relating or belonging to the class Cephalopoda

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

cephalopod; cephalopodan

Pertainym:

Cephalopoda (octopuses; squids; cuttlefish; pearly nautilus)

Derivation:

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

 Context examples 

That's especially true for crustaceans and cephalopods, which are common prey for other animals and whose larvae migrate in the water column.

(Low ocean oxygen levels can blind sea creatures, National Science Foundation)

This animal was particularly unusual because it lacked the pigment cells, called chromatophores, typical of most cephalopods, and it did not seem very muscular.

(Deep Discoverer Discovers a Very Deep, Ghostlike Octopod, NOAA)

Octopuses are cephalopods, a class of marine invertebrates with an evolutionary history spanning more than 500 million years.

(First-ever octopus genome sequenced, NSF)

The appearance of this animal was unlike any published records and was the deepest observation ever for this type of cephalopod.

(Deep Discoverer Discovers a Very Deep, Ghostlike Octopod, NOAA)