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SPIRULA

Dictionary entry overview: What does spirula mean?

• SPIRULA (noun)
The noun SPIRULA has 1 sense:

1. a small tropical cephalopod of the genus Spirula having prominent eyes and short arms and a many-chambered shell coiled in a flat spiral

Familiarity information: SPIRULA used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• SPIRULA (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A small tropical cephalopod of the genus Spirula having prominent eyes and short arms and a many-chambered shell coiled in a flat spiral

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

spirula; Spirula peronii

Hypernyms ("spirula" is a kind of...):

decapod (cephalopods having eight short tentacles plus two long ones)

Holonyms ("spirula" is a member of...):

genus Spirula (genus of small cephalopods with many-chambered spiral shells resembling those of the extinct belemnites)

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