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octopod

Other forms: octopods

Definitions of octopod
  1. noun
    a cephalopod with eight arms but lacking an internal shell
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    types:
    devilfish, octopus
    bottom-living cephalopod having a soft oval body with eight long tentacles
    Argonaut, Argonauta argo, nautilus, paper nautilus
    cephalopod mollusk of warm seas whose females have delicate papery spiral shells
    type of:
    cephalopod, cephalopod mollusk
    marine mollusk characterized by well-developed head and eyes and sucker-bearing tentacles
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