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    SPIRULA

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    A small tropical cephalopod of the genus Spirula having prominent eyes and short arms and a many-chambered shell coiled in a flat spiralplay

    Synonyms:

    spirula; Spirula peronii

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    Nouns denoting animals

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

    decapod (cephalopods having eight short tentacles plus two long ones)

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

    genus Spirula (genus of small cephalopods with many-chambered spiral shells resembling those of the extinct belemnites)

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