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Definition of Cephalopoda
1. Noun. Octopuses; squids; cuttlefish; pearly nautilus.
Group relationships: Mollusca, Phylum Mollusca
Member holonyms: Cephalopod, Cephalopod Mollusk, Family Nautilidae, Nautilidae, Dibranchia, Dibranchiata, Subclass Dibranchia, Subclass Dibranchiata
Generic synonyms: Class
Definition of Cephalopoda
1. n. pl. The highest class of Mollusca.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cephalopoda
Literary usage of Cephalopoda
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on Zoology by Edwin Ray Lankester (1906)
"The cephalopoda are perfectly symmetrical Mollusca, in which the edges of the foot
... In comparing the cephalopoda with other Mollusca, one finds that the ..."
2. Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society by Royal Microscopical Society, London (1882)
"ink-sao of the cephalopoda, and this view is strengthened by a consideration of
the nervous supply. In the Gastropoda the glands in question receive ..."
3. Zoology: Being a Systematic Account of the General Structure, Habits by William Benjamin Carpenter, William Sweetland Dallas (1867)
"THE cephalopoda unquestionably constitute the group of highest organisation in the
... In some of the cephalopoda the feet are much prolonged, ..."
4. Petrifactions and Their Teachings; Or, A Hand-book to the Gallery of Organic by Gideon Algernon Mantell (1851)
"FOSSIL cephalopoda.— Table-cases on the south side of Room V.—The six Table-cases
on the ... The cephalopoda are composed of a body which is either naked, ..."
5. Report of the Annual Meeting (1901)
"The Statocysts of cephalopoda. By R. HA.KLYX-HARRIS, FR MS, FZS Thanks to the
kindness of the Committee of the British Association for the Advancement of ..."
6. A Manual of the Mollusca: A Treatise on Recent and Fossil Shells by Samuel Peckworth Woodward, Ralph Tate (1871)
"THE cephalopoda are represented by the common squid, the nautilus, ... The points
of analogy between the cephalopoda and the vertebrates are the internal ..."
7. Manual of Geology: Theoretical and Practical by John Phillips, Robert Etheridge, Harry Govier Seeley (1885)
"The characteristic species in this rich fauna are— cephalopoda. ... cephalopoda
Bed.—Below the Pea Grit and ferruginous Oolite, or between these beds and ..."
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