Definitions of octopod
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a cephalopod with eight arms but lacking an internal shell
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types:
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devilfish, octopus
bottom-living cephalopod having a soft oval body with eight long tentacles
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Argonaut, Argonauta argo, nautilus, paper nautilus
cephalopod mollusk of warm seas whose females have delicate papery spiral shells
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type of:
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cephalopod, cephalopod mollusk
marine mollusk characterized by well-developed head and eyes and sucker-bearing tentacles
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devilfish, octopus
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