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OCTOPOD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does octopod mean? 

OCTOPOD (noun)
  The noun OCTOPOD has 1 sense:

1. a cephalopod with eight arms but lacking an internal shellplay

  Familiarity information: OCTOPOD used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


OCTOPOD (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A cephalopod with eight arms but lacking an internal shell

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("octopod" is a kind of...):

cephalopod; cephalopod mollusk (marine mollusk characterized by well-developed head and eyes and sucker-bearing tentacles)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "octopod"):

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)

Holonyms ("octopod" is a member of...):

Octopoda; order Octopoda (octopuses and paper nautilus)


 Context examples 


As the ROV was traversing a flat area of rock interspersed with sediment at 4,290 meters, it came across a remarkable little octopod sitting on a flat rock dusted with a light coat of sediment.

(Deep Discoverer Discovers a Very Deep, Ghostlike Octopod, NOAA)



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