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Definition of Octopod
1. Noun. A cephalopod with eight arms but lacking an internal shell.
Group relationships: Octopoda, Order Octopoda
Specialized synonyms: Devilfish, Octopus, Argonaut, Argonauta Argo, Nautilus, Paper Nautilus
Definition of Octopod
1. n. One of the Octocerata.
Definition of Octopod
1. Noun. Any animal with eight feet or foot-like parts. ¹
2. Noun. Any cephalopod mollusks of the order Octopoda. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Octopod
1. any of an order of eight-armed mollusks [n -S]
Medical Definition of Octopod
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Octopod
Literary usage of Octopod
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Equilibration of Human Aptitudes and Powers of Adaptation by Cyrenus Osborne Ward (1895)
"The octopod—Question of Comparative Longevities— What Chances does Society Offer
Those about to Choose their Trade or Profession ? ..."
2. Lectures on the Comparative Anatomy and Physiology of the Invertebrate Animals by Richard Owen (1855)
"Müller §, Rüppell, and others were not slow in demonstrating that this, or a
similarly modified octopod, was really the male of the Argonauta. ..."
3. Magazine of Natural History edited by John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson (1837)
"of the case advocated by M. Rang, deduced from the certain and incontestable fact
of the position of the octopod with long palmated arms in the shell of the ..."
4. The Fisheries Exhibition Literature (1884)
"recent and eminent as Dumeril and De Blainville, whether the octopod really
secreted the shell, or whether, like the hermit-crab, it borrowed for its ..."
5. The Fisheries Exhibition Literature (1883)
"the octopod really secreted the shell, or whether, like the hermit-crab, it
borrowed for its protection the shell of some other mollusk. ..."
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