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Definition of Cephalopods
1. cephalopod [n] - See also: cephalopod
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cephalopods
Literary usage of Cephalopods
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Organic Evolution by Richard Swann Lull (1917)
"CHAPTER XXVI cephalopods Place in Nature.—Disregarding for the present the great
sub- kingdom Protozoa, the animals followed three great evolutionary lines, ..."
2. Elements of Geology: A Text-book for Colleges and for the General Reader by Joseph LeConte (1891)
"cephalopods.—One of the most striking characteristics of the Jurassic period is
the culmination of the class of cephalopods in number, diversity of forms, ..."
3. Elements of Zoölogy: A Textbook by Sanborn Tenney (1875)
"But the most gigantic species of cephalopods ever seen have been obtained ...
THIS Order comprises cephalopods which have two branchiae, sin ink-gland, and, ..."
4. A Manual of Palaeontology for the Use of Students with a General by Henry Alleyne Nicholson (1872)
"... cephalopods or Cuttle-fishes are characterised as being swimming animals,
almost invariably naked, with never more than eight or ten arms, ..."
5. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1906)
"The advance of the cephalopods.—The mollusks were an interesting factor of the
Hamilton fauna. The new lobate-sutured cephalopods, ..."
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