octopuses in English

noun
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a cephalopod mollusk with eight sucker-bearing arms, a soft saclike body, strong beaklike jaws, and no internal shell.
He compares the octopus to the other cephalopods - cuttlefish, crayfish, and the like.

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1. Cook the octopuses and before serving fry quickly.

2. 2 Limpets, snails and octopuses are mollusks.

3. Octopuses have a relatively short life expectancy; some species live for as little as six months.

4. Cuttlefish are related to squids and octopuses – a group of molluscs known as cephalopods

5. Cephalopods are mollusks (Cephalopoda), a class which includes octopuses, squid, cuttlefish, and nautilus

6. The class Cephalopoda comprises two sub-classes: Nautiloidea (Nautilus) and Coleoidea (octopuses, cuttlefish

7. Bivalves Bivalves belong to the invertebrate phylum Mollusca, which also includes snails, squids, and octopuses

8. Abalone is a mollusc and part of a family that includes clams, mussels, sea slugs and octopuses

9. The Cephalopoda is the class of the Mollusca comprising the octopuses, cuttlefish, squid, and their allies

10. Cephalopods (octopuses, squids, and cuttlefish) are considered to be masters of camouflage, blending in with their environment effortlessly

11. The argonauts ( genus Argonauta, the only extant genus in the family Argonautidae) are a group of pelagic octopuses

12. Molluscs are found on land and in salt and fresh water, and include SNAILS, ABALONE, CLAMS, MUSSELS, octopuses and squid.

13. The southern blue-ringed octopus (Hapalochlaena maculosa) is one of three (or perhaps four) highly venomous species of blue-ringed octopuses.

14. It is, of course, the octopus, and Tony goes Aqualunging off the south coast of Devon in search of small octopuses

15. 30 Juvenile Antarctic octopuses, speckled brown, mauve and orange, look like exquisitely carved netsuke ornaments, perfectly proportioned and endearing for their donnish domed "heads".

16. Belemnites (Belemnitida) were squid-like animals belonging to the cephalopod class of the mollusc phylum, and therefore related to ammonites of old, as well as to modern squids, octopuses and nautiluses

17. What Are Bivalves? Bivalves are a type of sea mollusk and are closely related to other types of mollusks, such as squid, octopuses, snails and slugs

18. Belemnites (Belemnitida) were squid-like animals belonging to the cephalopod class of the mollusc phylum, and therefore related to the ammonites of old as well as to the modern squids, octopuses and nautiluses.

19. The molluscan class Cephalopoda--squids and octopuses being the most familiar examples--includes a remarkable diversity of tentacled marine predators that use a jet propulsion system to move through the water, in some cases very quickly.

20. Cephalopoda Name Synonyms Ohioceratidae Homonyms Cephalopoda Common names Blæksprutter in Danish calmars in French cefalopode in Portuguese encornets in French lula in Portuguese náutilo in Portuguese octopuses in English pieuvres in French polvo in Portuguese

21. Any of various carnivorous marine mollusks of the class Cephalopoda, having a large head, a mouth with a chitinous beak surrounded by arms or tentacles, and in most species, an ink sac containing a dark fluid used for defense, and including the octopuses, squids, cuttlefishes, and nautiluses

22. ‘Purism, however, also has its Barbarisms, such as the quasiclassical plurals octopi and syllabi for octopus and syllabus, competing with octopuses and syllabuses.’ More example sentences ‘For instance, Fowler preferred Britishism to Briticism, labelling the latter a barbarism; Burchfield simply comments that Briticism is now the more

23. : any of a class (Cephalopoda) of marine mollusks including the squids, cuttlefishes, and octopuses that move by expelling water from a tubular siphon under the head and that have a group of muscular usually sucker-bearing arms around the front of the head, highly developed eyes, and usually a sac containing ink which is ejected for defense or concealment

24. Medical Definition of Cephalopoda : a class of mollusks including the squids, cuttlefishes, and octopuses that have a tubular siphon under the head, a group of muscular arms around the front of the head which are usually furnished with suckers, highly developed eyes, and usually a bag of inky fluid which can be ejected for defense or concealment

25. Cephalopod definition is - any of a class (Cephalopoda) of marine mollusks including the squids, cuttlefishes, and octopuses that move by expelling water from a tubular siphon under the head and that have a group of muscular usually sucker-bearing arms around the front of the head, highly developed eyes, and usually a sac containing ink which is ejected for defense or concealment.