Crossword-Solution: CEPHALOPOD
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Cephalopod | n. | Alt. of Cephalopode |
We have 10 clues for the answer “CEPHALOPOD”
| Clue | Answers |
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| A mollusc of a class including octopuses and squids | 1 answer |
| ARGONAUTA | 1 answer |
| cephalopoda | 2 answers |
| tentacled mollusc | 2 answers |
| Nautilus | 5 answers |
| paper nautilus | 6 answers |
| Octopus. | 9 answers |
| cuttlefish | 9 answers |
| Devilfish | 25 answers |
| argonaut | 36 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REEAT
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greedy person
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Sentences with CEPHALOPOD (5)
Its eight arms, or rather feet, fixed to its head, that have given the name of cephalopod to these animals, were twice as long as its body, and were twisted like the furies’ hair.
But they are the only existing members of the group which possess chambered, siphunculated shells; and it is utterly impossible to trace any physiological connection between the very peculiar structural characters of a cephalopod and the presence of a chambered shell.
Some are of opinion that the two plates have been the gizzard of a cephalopod; others, that it may have formed a bivalve operculum of the same.
There are 25 Gasteropods and only one cephalopod, _Nautilus Freieslebeni,_ which is also found in the German Zechstein.
Its predominant life features are the culmination and the beginning of the decline of reptiles, amphibians, cephalopod mollusks, and cycads, and the advent of marsupial mammals, birds, teleost fishes, and angiospermous plants.
Quotes with CEPHALOPOD (2)
If the students were taught about shuttle flights, plate tectonics and submarine volcanoes, they were also immersed in the traditional myths of their culture — the ancient story, for example, of how the island of Pohnpei had been built under the direction of a mystical octopus, Lidakika. (I was fascinated by this, for it was the only cephalopod creation myth I had ever heard.
If you go to the octopus, and if you're not too squeamish, dissect it. You'll find that it has a camera eye which is remarkable similar to our own. And yet we know that the octopus belongs to an invertebrate group called cephalopod mulluses, evolutionarily very distant indeed from the chordates to which we belong.