cephalopod

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And if you're an octopus or a cephalopod you really understand how to use your surroundings to hide.

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  1. 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.
  2. adjective Of, relating to, or belonging to the class Cephalopoda.

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  • 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
 

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  1. From New Latin Cephalopoda, class name : cephalo- + -poda, -pod.
 

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