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noun Any of various marine mollusks of the class Cephalopoda, such as the octopus, squid, cuttlefish, or nautilus, having a large head, large eyes, prehensile tentacles, and, in most species, an ink sac containing a dark fluid used for protection or defense.
adjective Of, relating to, or belonging to the class Cephalopoda.

And if you're an octopus or a cephalopod you really understand how to use your surroundings to hide. — David Gallo shows underwater astonishments
The very second I stepped into the front room, a woman attached herself to me, spreading herself across my front like a cephalopod embracing its prey. — Dozois, Gardner ; Strahan, Jonathan - SSC - The New Space Opera (v1.0)
The ship was staying in the Soro system not only because of my family, but because the crew was now mostly zoologists who had come to study a sea animal on Eleven-Soro, a kind of cephalopod that had mutated toward high intelligence, or maybe it already was highly intelligent; but there was a communication problem. — F ;SF; - vol 087 issue 06 - December 1994
I wished I could sink into the water, the way the cephalopod was doing. — F ;SF; - vol 087 issue 06 - December 1994
The long whips pulled down shelves as the cephalopod pulled itself after the frog. — VANCE MOORE