Cephalopod

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  • noun. Any of various carnivorous marine mollusks of the class Cephalopoda, having a large head, a mouth with a chitinous beak surrounded by arms or tentacles, and in most species, an ink sac containing a dark fluid used for defense, and including the octopuses, squids, cuttlefishes, and nautiluses.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Pertaining to or resembling the Cephalopoda. Also cephalopodan, cephalopodous.
  • noun. A member of the class Cephalopoda. Also cephalopodan, cephalopode.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. One of the Cephalopoda.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Any mollusc, of the class Cephalopoda, which includes squid, cuttlefish, octopus, nautiloids etc.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. relating or belonging to the class Cephalopoda
  • noun. marine mollusk characterized by well-developed head and eyes and sucker-bearing tentacles
  • Word Usage
    "The giant squid is an "eat the crew, ask questions later" kind of cephalopod"