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cephalopod

Syllables: ceph·a·lo·pod/ˈsɛfələˌpɒd/US/ˈsɛfələpɑd/

cephalopod noun: any mollusc of the class Cephalopoda, which includes squid, cuttlefish, octopus, nautiloids etc.

Noun

cephalopod (plural cephalopods)

  1. Any mollusc of the class Cephalopoda, which includes squid, cuttlefish, octopus, nautiloids etc.
    • In terms of diversity, cephalopods include the egg case making argonauts, shelled nautiluses, venomous blue-ringed octopuses and enigmatic giants like the giant and colossal squid. […] Generally, cephalopod ink includes melanin, enzymes related to melanin production, catecholamines, peptidoglycans...2017 August 9, Mark Carnall, “Why do cephalopods produce ink? And what's ink made of, anyway?”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 15 Mar 2023

cephalopod meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Arabic and Persian

cephalopod in Hindi

mollusc
शीर्षपाद śīrṣapād

cephalopod in Tamil

தலைக்காலி, தலைபோல்காலி

cephalopod in Arabic

mollusc
رَأْسِيّ الْقَدَم raʔsiyy al-qadam, رُأْسَقَدَمِيّ ruʔsaqadamiyy

cephalopod in Persian

mollusc
سرپایان sarpâyân

Examples of cephalopod in a sentence

  • Scientific naming conventions are such that technically, ammonites are ammonoidean, ammonitidan, and sometimes strictly ammonitinan cephalopods.
  • There are a few well known shelled giant cephalopods from the fossil record.
  • The shell of a baculite was quite simply straight—an unexpected throwback to the early days of cephalopods.

All 18 example sentences with cephalopod

Forms of cephalopod

pluralcephalopods

Origin of cephalopod

From French céphalopode, from Ancient Greek κεφαλή (kephalḗ, “head”) + ποδός (podós), genitive singular of πούς (poús, “foot, leg”). By surface analysis, cephalo- + -pod.

Words formed from cephalopod

Questions about cephalopod

What does cephalopod mean?
Cephalopod means any mollusc of the class Cephalopoda, which includes squid, cuttlefish, octopus, nautiloids etc.
What is cephalopod in Hindi?
Cephalopod in Hindi is शीर्षपाद (śīrṣapād). See Cephalopod meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is cephalopod?
Cephalopod is a noun.
How do you pronounce cephalopod?
Cephalopod is pronounced /ˈsɛfələˌpɒd/ (UK).
What is the plural of cephalopod?
The plural of cephalopod is cephalopods.

Words near cephalopod in the dictionary

  1. cephalophine
  2. cephalophines
  3. cephalophore
  4. cephalophores
  5. cephaloplastin
  6. cephalopod
  7. cephalopodal
  8. cephalopode
  9. cephalopodes
  10. cephalopodic
  11. cephalopodous

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cephalopod (page history and authors); cephalopod (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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