cephalopod

/sef-uh-luh-pod/US // ˈsɛf ə ləˌpɒd //UK // (ˈsɛfələˌpɒd) //

头足类,头足类动物,头足纲,头足纲动物

Definitions

n.名词 noun

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- : any mollusk of the class Cephalopoda, having tentacles attached to the head, including the cuttlefish, squid, and octopus.

adj.形容词 adjective

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- : Also ceph·a·lo·pod·ic, ceph·a·lop·o·dous [sef-uh-lop-uh-duhs]. /ˌsɛf əˈlɒp ə dəs/. belonging or pertaining to the Cephalopoda.

Since then, the myriad forms of vertebrate life—fish, reptiles, birds, and mammals among them—have developed their own kinds of mind along one branch, while cephalopods developed another.
Another way of approaching the question is by considering cephalopods, especially octopuses.
Despite the name, this animal isn’t technically a squid, but rather a cephalopod.
Just 29 hours after being hatched, the cephalopods were blasted into space, tucked away in small “aquarium bags.”
Ramshorn, ramz′horn, n. a semicircular work of low profile in the ditch of a fortified place: an ammonite: a fossil cephalopod.
It has been regarded as a plant, and as a cephalopod shell; but I believe it was a coral allied to Cystiphyllum.
Dr. Dean thinks this more likely to be part of the axis of a cephalopod shell.
On the crab being devoured by the right species of Cephalopod, the merozoites doubtless give rise to the sexual generation again.
Forerunners of the great ammonite family of cephalopod mollusks now appear.