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  • proper noun archaic Coleoidea.

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  • I.L.B. 26 This monster is a cephalopod of the order Dibranchiata, and has eight flexible arms, each crowded with 120 pair of suckers, and two longer feelers about six feet in length, differing considerably from the others in form.

    The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004

  • Nevertheless, in the two-gilled Cephalopods (_Dibranchiata_) we find the brain supported and protected by a cartilaginous cranium.

    On the Genesis of Species St. George Mivart

  • {276} This monster is a cephalopod of the order Dibranchiata, and has eight flexible arms, each crowded with 120 pair of suckers, and two longer feelers about six feet in length, differing considerably from the others in form.

    The Hawaiian Archipelago 1867

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