any marine mollusc of the class Cephalopoda, characterized by well-developed head and eyes and a ring of sucker-bearing tentacles. The group also includes the octopuses, squids, cuttlefish, and pearly nautilus
any of a class (Cephalopoda) of marine mollusks having a distinct head with highly developed eyes, varying numbers of arms, with suckers, attached to the head about the mouth, and a saclike fin-bearing mantle, as an octopus, squid, or cuttlefish
Word origin
cephalo- + -pod
Examples of 'cephalopod' in a sentence
cephalopod
I wished I could sink into the water, the way the cephalopod was doing.
Ursula K. Le Guin THE BIRTHDAY OF THE WORLD (2002)