1. a type of mollusc with a combined head and body and large eyes. Cephalopods have arms and/or tentacles (= long thin parts like arms), which may have suckers (= round parts that enable them to stick to a surface) on them. octopus and squid are cephalopods.
   Word Originmodern Latin (plural), from Greek kephalÄ“ ‘head’ + pous, pod- ‘foot’.

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