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Decacerata :: Decacerata (n. pl.) The division of Cephalopoda which includes the squids, cuttlefishes, and others having ten arms or tentacles; -- called also Decapoda. [Written also Decacera.] See Dibranchiata..

Hydrencephsloid :: Hydrencephsloid (a.) Same as Hydrocephaloid.

Cephalopode :: Cephalopode (n.) One of the Cephalopoda.

Acephalous :: Acephalous (a.) Wanting the beginning.

Nimbus :: Nimbus (n.) A circle, or disk, or any indication of radiant light around the heads of divinities, saints, and sovereigns, upon medals, pictures, etc.; a halo. See Aureola, and Glory, n., 5..

Siphuncle :: Siphuncle (n.) The tube which runs through the partitions of chambered cephalopod shells.

Cuttlefish :: Cuttlefish (n.) A cephalopod of the genus Sepia, having an internal shell, large eyes, and ten arms furnished with denticulated suckers, by means of which it secures its prey. The name is sometimes applied to dibranchiate cephalopods generally..

Omphalomancy :: Omphalomancy (n.) Divination by means of a child's navel, to learn how many children the mother may have..

Teetee :: Teetee (n.) A diving petrel of Australia (Halodroma wrinatrix).

Hetercephalous :: Hetercephalous (a.) Bearing two kinds of heads or capitula; -- said of certain composite plants.

Cephalous :: Cephalous (a.) Having a head; -- applied chiefly to the Cephalata, a division of mollusks..

Cephalocercal :: Cephalocercal (a.) Relating to the long axis of the body.

Haloid :: Haloid (a.) Resembling salt; -- said of certain binary compounds consisting of a metal united to a negative element or radical, and now chiefly applied to the chlorides, bromides, iodides, and sometimes also to the fluorides and cyanides..

Halo :: Halo (n.) A luminous circle, usually prismatically colored, round the sun or moon, and supposed to be caused by the refraction of light through crystals of ice in the atmosphere. Connected with halos there are often white bands, crosses, or arches, resulting from the same atmospheric conditions..

Loligo :: Loligo (n.) A genus of cephalopods, including numerous species of squids, common on the coasts of America and Europe. They are much used for fish bait..

Infundibulum :: Infundibulum (n.) The siphon of Cephalopoda. See Cephalopoda.

Microcephalic :: Microcephalic (a.) Alt. of Microcephalou.

Architeuthis :: Architeuthis (n.) A genus of gigantic cephalopods, allied to the squids, found esp. in the North Atlantic and about New Zealand..

Stahlian :: Stagworm (n.) The larve of any species of botfly which is parasitic upon the stag, as /strus, or Hypoderma, actaeon, which burrows beneath the skin, and Cephalomyia auribarbis, which lives in the nostrils..

Cephaloptera :: Cephaloptera (n.) One of the generic names of the gigantic ray (Manta birostris), known as devilfish and sea devil. It is common on the coasts of South Carolina, Florida, and farther south. Some of them grow to enormous size, becoming twenty feet of more across the body, and weighing more than a ton..

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