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Cephalopodic

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Ceph`a`lo`pod´ic    (sĕf`å`lô`pǒd´ĭk)
a.1.(Zool.) Belonging to, or resembling, the cephalopods.


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And in some whole groups of animals and in certain members of other groups, the embryo does not at any period differ widely from the adult: thus Owen has remarked in regard to cuttle-fish, 'there is no metamorphosis; the cephalopodic character is manifested long before the parts of the embryo are completed;' and again in spiders, 'there is nothing worthy to be called a metamorphosis.
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