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- noun Plural form of
cephalopode .
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In regard to invertebrate animals, we find corals and some shells associated in the oldest formations with very highly organised cephalopodes and crustaceans, so that widely different orders of this part of the animal kingdom appear intermingled; there are, nevertheless, many isolated groups belonging to the same order in which determinate laws are discoverable.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science Various 1909
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