Sepioid
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A member of a clade of cephalopods including the cuttlefish and related species, typically held to include bottletail squid, bobtail squid and pygmy squid.
"As hinted at by the pygmy's glue gland, sepioids house some of the flat-out weirdest members of the modern cephalopod family."
Example
More examples"As hinted at by the pygmy's glue gland, sepioids house some of the flat-out weirdest members of the modern cephalopod family."
Etymology
From sepia + -oid.
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