Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as cephalopod.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Zoöl.) Belonging to, or resembling, the cephalopods.

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  • adjective zoology Belonging to, or resembling, the cephalopods.

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Examples

  • Here is proof of what happens when a blog-gigolo an ordinary person comes into contact with a strangely cephalopodic being!

    if I can’t have a pony « raincoaster 2007

  • In some whole groups of animals and in certain members of other groups this is the case, and the embryo does not at any period differ widely from the adult: thus Owen has remarked in regard to cuttlefish, "There is no metamorphosis; the cephalopodic character is manifested long before the parts of the embryo are completed."

    Evolution of direct development in echinoderms - The Panda's Thumb 2007

  • In some whole groups of animals and in certain members of other groups this is the case, and the embryo does not at any period differ widely from the adult: thus Owen has remarked in regard to cuttlefish, "There is no metamorphosis; the cephalopodic character is manifested long before the parts of the embryo are completed."

    The Panda's Thumb: June 2007 Archives 2007

  • Their voracious appetite for bird plumes having exhausted all the worthy species of that family, the fashionistas moved on to cephalopodic accoutrements during the early 20th Century.

    save the endangered tree octopus « raincoaster 2006

  • In some whole groups of animals and in certain members of other groups this is the case, and the embryo does not at any period differ widely from the adult: thus Owen has remarked in regard to cuttlefish, “There is no metamorphosis; the cephalopodic character is manifested long before the parts of the embryo are completed.

    XIV. Mutual Affinities of Organic Beings: Morphology-Embryology-Rudimentary Organs. Development and Embryology 1909

  • And with us painters also, the only result of any efforts we make to acquaint ourselves with the subjects of metaphysical inquiry has been an increased sense of the prudence of lying placidly and unreflectively in our pools, or at least limiting ourselves to such gentle efforts of imagination as may be consistent with the as yet imperfectly developed powers, I do not say even of cephalopodic, but of Ascidian nervous centers.

    On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature John Ruskin 1859

  • And in some whole groups of animals and in certain members of other groups, the embryo does not at any period differ widely from the adult: thus Owen has remarked in regard to cuttle-fish, "there is no metamorphosis; the cephalopodic character is manifested long before the parts of the embryo are completed;" and again in spiders, "there is nothing worthy to be called a metamorphosis."

    On the Origin of Species~ Chapter 13 (historical) Charles Darwin 1859

  • And in some whole groups of animals and in certain members of other groups, the embryo does not at any period differ widely from the adult: thus Owen has remarked in regard to cuttle-fish, ` there is no metamorphosis; the cephalopodic character is manifested long before the parts of the embryo are completed; 'and again in spiders, ` there is nothing worthy to be called a metamorphosis.'

    On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life 1859

  • And in some whole groups of animals and in certain members of other groups, the embryo does not at any period differ widely from the adult: thus Owen has remarked in regard to cuttle-fish, "there is no metamorphosis; the cephalopodic character is manifested long before the parts of the embryo are completed;" and again in spiders, "there is nothing worthy to be called a metamorphosis."

    On the origin of species Charles Darwin 1845

  • And hey, if you hated the film, if you think we committed atrocities, or literary mistakes of a massive, cephalopodic nature.

    Every Day Is Like Wednesday 2009

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