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Cephalopod   /sˈɛfələpˌɑd/   Listen
Cephalopod

adjective
1.
Relating or belonging to the class Cephalopoda.  Synonym: cephalopodan.



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"Cephalopod" Quotes from Famous Books



... be imported, one would think, from another planet, so far removed is it from earthly habits. What a singular race are the Locustidae, one of the oldest in the animal kingdom on dry land and, like the Scolopendra and the Cephalopod, acting as a belated representative ...
— The Wonders of Instinct • J. H. Fabre

... excursion into the realm of "transcendental anatomy" is his comparison of a Cephalopod to a doubled-up Vertebrate whose legs have become adherent to its head, whose alimentary canal has doubled upon itself in such a way as to bring the anus near the mouth (De Partibus, iv., 9, 684^b). It is clear, however, that Aristotle did ...
— Form and Function - A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology • E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell

... structures to have been brought about in two independent instances by merely indefinite and minute accidental variations, is an improbability which amounts practically to impossibility. Moreover, we have here again the same imperfection of the four-gilled cephalopod, as compared with the two-gilled, and therefore (if the latter proceeded from the former) a similar indication of a certain comparative rapidity of development. Finally, and this is perhaps one of the most curious circumstances, the process ...
— On the Genesis of Species • St. George Mivart



Words linked to "Cephalopod" :   class Cephalopoda, cephalopodan, pearly nautilus, dibranch, mollusc, Cephalopoda, nautilus, chambered nautilus, dibranchiate mollusk, decapod, mollusk, shellfish, octopod, dibranchiate



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