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SPIRULA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does spirula mean?
• SPIRULA (noun)
The noun SPIRULA has 1 sense:
1. a small tropical cephalopod of the genus Spirula having prominent eyes and short arms and a many-chambered shell coiled in a flat spiral
Familiarity information: SPIRULA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A small tropical cephalopod of the genus Spirula having prominent eyes and short arms and a many-chambered shell coiled in a flat spiral
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
spirula; Spirula peronii
Hypernyms ("spirula" is a kind of...):
decapod (cephalopods having eight short tentacles plus two long ones)
Holonyms ("spirula" is a member of...):
genus Spirula (genus of small cephalopods with many-chambered spiral shells resembling those of the extinct belemnites)
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