Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. 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.
- adj. Of, relating to, or belonging to the class Cephalopoda.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Pertaining to or resembling the Cephalopoda. Also cephalopodan, cephalopodous.
- n. A member of the class Cephalopoda. Also cephalopodan, cephalopode.
Wiktionary
- n. Any mollusc, of the class Cephalopoda, which includes squid, cuttlefish, octopus, nautiloids etc.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) One of the Cephalopoda.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. relating or belonging to the class Cephalopoda
- n. marine mollusk characterized by well-developed head and eyes and sucker-bearing tentacles
Etymologies
- From New Latin Cephalopoda, class name : cephalo- + -poda, -pod. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The giant squid is an "eat the crew, ask questions later" kind of cephalopod”
“I was also somewhat at a loss as to what kind of cephalopod-related picture I could post in honor of PZ's 50th not a lot of squid in northeastern California!”
“Sorry, I’m pretty sure that’s not Darwin, but some kind of cephalopod space alien.”
Breaking news: Darwin appears in holy frying pan! - The Panda's Thumb
“This summer, he's been hired by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to journey to the Philippines and the remote Pacific ocean and study the mysterious cephalopod Nautilus, a living fossil over 500 million years old that just might be reaching the end of its expansive evolutionary rope.”
The Huffington Post: Scott Thill: We've Entered the Age of Mass Extinction
“In a titanic clash of science and sensationalism, this crafty cephalopod was conjectured to be the "most intelligent invertebrate ever" -- so talented, in fact, that it sculpted "the earliest known self-portrait" using the bones of its prey.”
“Sadly, the psychic cephalopod passed away last night in his aquarium at the Oberhausen Sea Life Centre.”
The Huffington Post: David Mizejewski: Paul the Psychic Octopus Is Dead
“Every restaurant has the same menu -- grilled salmon, ahi encrusted in something, some kind of really expensive steak, and a pasta with a frozen shellfish or cephalopod.”
“Before commenting seriously on the news, I want to take a moment for Paul the Octopus, the psychic cephalopod who correctly predicted the outcome of eight World Cup soccer matches, including the final.”
The Washington Post: Goodbye Pulpo Paul: a tribute to our favorite psychic octopus
“If it isn†™ t Conquest escaping his holding cell, it†™ s the cephalopod army readying their attack, or Eve discovering the test results are positive.”
Review: Invincible #68 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News
“It's mostly action as the skull-headed robot is accidentally dragged from the bottom of the sea and has to save a fishing boat from an enormous cephalopod, but there are enough hints at 13's mysterious background and teases about his future to make me want to see what happens next.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cephalopod’.
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Squiddy
Squiddishiousness
squid, squidwarts, squarf, squiddity, squiddiddition, the id of the squid, squisk, squeep, squiddiddiddity, squiddie, squiddishious, squidnunc and 168 more...
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phrontistery - c
from phrontistery.info
czardas, cytometer, cytology, cytheromania, cystoscope, cystolith, cyrenaic, cypseline, cyprinoid, cyphonism, cynophobia, cytogenesis and 1298 more...
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pede-, ped-, -pede, -pedal, -pod, -po...
denoting or relating to feet ; of or like a foot
centipede, bipedal, pedometer, millipede, arthropod, quadrupedal, pedicure, pedal, pedopathy, tripod, monopod, pedatifid and 9 more...
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-opods
footed feet - Got legs?
glassopod, actinopod, adelopod, anthropod, baenopod, brachiopod, branchiopod, cephalopod, cercopod, chenopod, chilopod, condylopod and 32 more...
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That's heady stuff
cephalopod, cephalonamancy, cephalaigic, encephalitis, aurocephalous, autocephalous, cephalic, pachycephalosaurus, brachycephalic, dolichocephalic, acephalist, hydroencephalitis and 3 more...
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-cephalic, -cephalous, cephalo-
of or relating to the head, -headed
cephalometry, cephalopod, encephalitis, cephalitis, dolichocephalic, brachycephalous, dolichocephaly, brachycephalic, hydrocephalous
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Underwaterritory
When you're underwater, what do you see or experience? Let's dive...
(Here's a cute little related list called Fishful Thinking...)underwater, curglaff, submarine, underwater habitat, diving bell, paravane, bottom trawling, sediment traps, torpedo, mines, shipwreck, sonar and 214 more...
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addendumb's Words
fey, cockshut, redact, beatific, melange, arcanum, rarefied, dissemble, capitulation, detritus, ennui, anodyne and 381 more...
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polymorph's Words
pornerastic, yeaux, enantiadromia, synchronicity, transubstantiation, sensimilla, slough, scaphism, symbiosis, prolix, orgiastic, cryptogamic and 245 more...
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ikahime's Words
callipygian, squidocracy, epicene, alkahest, syzygy, pysmatic, ideopraxist, quandary, vulpine, fandango, ataraxia, exsanguinate and 92 more...
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Favorite Tangible Object Words
Trimming the "Chained Bear's Favorites" list so I don't crash people's computers... like my own...
castanets, whaup, budgie, wallabies, ring-wraith, hobbit, chinchilla, guano, merganser, phalarope, phalarope, curlew and 138 more...
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je les adore!
fusillade, foal, celestial, abattoir, byzantium, berlin, casablanca, babylon, balkans, albion, avalon, between the devil... and 471 more...
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Favorite Words
quixotic, assonance, palindrome, plebeian, mezzanine, propinquity, etymology, antihero, intrepid, refractions, lawless, sesquipedalian and 237 more...
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dann's words
just some nice words that i like.
beamish, snark, sundry, contrariwise, salsify, cephalopod, omphaloskepsis, grok, resistentialism, peristerophobia, aglet, ferrule and 125 more...
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Favorite Words of AWP13
We asked attendees who visited the Wordnik booth what their favorite words were, and these are what they told us. (AWP is an annual conference for writers and those in the writing world.)
cling, declivity, susurrus, caramel, cataract, please, fester, reverie, kerplunk!, defenestration, colonel, ocean and 174 more...
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phuzzy's Words
entomophagan, corpuscle, mellifluence, haberdasher, milliner, tow, spartan, bdellotomy, trepan, trephine, congenial, courtly and 208 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for cephalopod.
chained_bear Posting this here as well as on cuttlefish. Because cephalopods rock. Dec 23, 2008
Prolagus No, sionnach teaches us it's cephalopygian. Apr 4, 2008
seanahan Would that be analopod? Oct 24, 2007
uselessness seanahan,
Better a foothead than a butthead.
Insincerely,
uselessness Oct 23, 2007
chained_bear seanahan,
You're still a foothead.
chained_bear Oct 23, 2007
seanahan Ooooooh, chained_bear looooooves me. Oct 23, 2007
chained_bear seanahan,
You're a foothead.
Love,
chained_bear Oct 23, 2007
seanahan Don't worry about it CB, if it's any consolation, this can't have further lowered our opinion of you. Oct 23, 2007
reesetee Don't sulk. "Foothead" just sounds so much better. In fact, it's one of my favorite epithets. :-) Oct 22, 2007
chained_bear Shut up!!
I mean... yeah, I guess.
*sulks* Oct 22, 2007
reesetee "Headfoot," no? Oct 22, 2007
chained_bear I love that this word means "foothead." Oct 21, 2007