cefalópodo

Definitions of cefalópodo
  1. noun
    marine mollusk characterized by well-developed head and eyes and sucker-bearing tentacles
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    nautilo
    cephalopod of the Indian and Pacific oceans having a spiral shell with pale pearly partitions
    dibranquiado
    cephalopods having two gills
    octópodo
    a cephalopod with eight arms but lacking an internal shell
    decápodo
    cephalopods having eight short tentacles plus two long ones
    pulpo
    bottom-living cephalopod having a soft oval body with eight long tentacles
    nautilo
    cephalopod mollusk of warm seas whose females have delicate papery spiral shells
    calamar
    widely distributed fast-moving ten-armed cephalopod mollusk having a long tapered body with triangular tail fins
    jibia, sepia
    ten-armed oval-bodied cephalopod with narrow fins as long as the body and a large calcareous internal shell
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    molusco
    invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell
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