Definition of Cephalopodan

1. Adjective. Relating or belonging to the class Cephalopoda.

Exact synonyms: Cephalopod
Derivative terms: Cephalopod
Partainyms: Cephalopoda, Cephalopoda

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cephalopodan

cephalometry
cephalomotor
cephalon
cephalons
cephalont
cephalopagus
cephalopalpebral reflex
cephalopathy
cephalopelvic
cephalopelvimetry
cephalopharyngeus
cephalophore
cephalophores
cephalopod
cephalopod mollusk
cephalopodan (current term)
cephalopods
cephaloridine
cephaloridines
cephalorrhachidian
cephalorrhachidian index
cephalosome
cephalosomes
cephalosporanic acid
cephalosporanic acids
cephalosporin
cephalosporin 7-alpha-hydroxylase
cephalosporin C transaminase
cephalosporin resistance
cephalosporinase

Literary usage of Cephalopodan

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Geologist: A Monthly Journal of Geology and Allied Sciences by Newton Horace Winchell (1905)
"... xlv, 37; Nan- no: a new cephalopodan type, xlv, 205: Sketch of GH Williams, xv, fi9; Cephalopod beginnings, xv, 125: On Nanno. (cit. ..."

2. Text-book of the Embryology of Invertebrates by Eugen Korschelt, Karl Heider, Edward Laurens Mark, William McMichael Woodworth, Matilda Bernard, Martin Fountain Woodward (1900)
"A few words must be said as to the position in which we have represented the embryo, since it is not that formerly ascribed to cephalopodan embryos, ..."

3. Manual of Geology: Treating of the Principles of the Science with Special by James Dwight Dana (1866)
"... or the straight-shelled Cephalopoda with plain septa, the lower of cephalopodan Mollusks: marine worms, the inferior group of Articulates; Trilobites, ..."

4. The Scientific Memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley by Thomas Henry Huxley, Michael Foster (1898)
"... gives us the cephalopodan subtype. The formation of an abdomen with an excessive development of the ..."

5. The Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales by Linnean Society of New South Wales (1894)
"Temporary local cessations of sedimentation were marked by the accumulation of coralline and cephalopodan limestones, the corals and cephalopoda specially ..."

6. Class-book of Geology by Archibald Geikie (1903)
"Never before or since, indeed, have the cephalopodan types been so manifold (Fig. 205). For instance, Baculites is a straight-chambered shell reminding us ..."

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