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CEPHALOPOD MOLLUSK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cephalopod mollusk mean? 

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

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

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


 Dictionary entry details 


CEPHALOPOD MOLLUSK (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 mollusk" 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 mollusk"):

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 mollusk" is a member of...):

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


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