Library / English Dictionary

OCTOPOD

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A cephalopod with eight arms but lacking an internal shell

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("octopod" is a kind of...):

cephalopod; cephalopod mollusk (marine mollusk characterized by well-developed head and eyes and sucker-bearing tentacles)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "octopod"):

devilfish; octopus (bottom-living cephalopod having a soft oval body with eight long tentacles)

Argonaut; Argonauta argo; nautilus; paper nautilus (cephalopod mollusk of warm seas whose females have delicate papery spiral shells)

Holonyms ("octopod" is a member of...):

Octopoda; order Octopoda (octopuses and paper nautilus)

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