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ORDER OCTOPODA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does order Octopoda mean?
• ORDER OCTOPODA (noun)
The noun ORDER OCTOPODA has 1 sense:
1. octopuses and paper nautilus
Familiarity information: ORDER OCTOPODA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Octopuses and paper nautilus
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
Octopoda; order Octopoda
Hypernyms ("order Octopoda" is a kind of...):
animal order (the order of animals)
Meronyms (members of "order Octopoda"):
octopod (a cephalopod with eight arms but lacking an internal shell)
family Octopodidae; Octopodidae (a family of Octopoda)
Argonautidae; family Argonautidae (represented solely by the genus Argonauta)
Holonyms ("order Octopoda" is a member of...):
Dibranchia; Dibranchiata; subclass Dibranchia; subclass Dibranchiata (comprising all living cephalopods except the family Nautilidae: the orders Octopoda (octopuses) and Decapoda (squids and cuttlefish))
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