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GENUS SEPIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Sepia mean?
• GENUS SEPIA (noun)
The noun GENUS SEPIA has 1 sense:
1. type genus of the Sepiidae
Familiarity information: GENUS SEPIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Type genus of the Sepiidae
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
genus Sepia; Sepia
Hypernyms ("genus Sepia" is a kind of...):
mollusk genus (a genus of mollusks)
Meronyms (members of "genus Sepia"):
cuttle; cuttlefish (ten-armed oval-bodied cephalopod with narrow fins as long as the body and a large calcareous internal shell)
Holonyms ("genus Sepia" is a member of...):
family Sepiidae; Sepiidae (true cuttlefishes)
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