GENUS SPIRULA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Spirula mean? 

• GENUS SPIRULA (noun)
  The noun GENUS SPIRULA has 1 sense:

1. genus of small cephalopods with many-chambered spiral shells resembling those of the extinct belemnites

  Familiarity information: GENUS SPIRULA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS SPIRULA (noun)

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Meaning:

Genus of small cephalopods with many-chambered spiral shells resembling those of the extinct belemnites

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Nouns denoting animals

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

mollusk genus (a genus of mollusks)

Meronyms (members of "genus Spirula"):

spirula; Spirula peronii (a small tropical cephalopod of the genus Spirula having prominent eyes and short arms and a many-chambered shell coiled in a flat spiral)

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

family Spirulidae; Spirulidae (coextensive with the genus Spirula; included in the order Belemnoidea in some older classifications)