HyperDic: spirula_peronii

English > 1 sense of the expression Spirula peronii:
NOUNanimalSpirula peronii, spirulaa small tropical cephalopod of the genus Spirula having prominent eyes and short arms and a many-chambered shell coiled in a flat spiral
English > Spirula peronii: 1 sense > noun 1, animal
MeaningA small tropical cephalopod of the genus Spirula having prominent eyes and short arms and a many-chambered shell coiled in a flat spiral.
Synonymspirula
Member ofgenus Spirulagenus of small cephalopods with many-chambered spiral shells resembling those of the extinct belemnites
Broaderdecapodcephalopods having eight short tentacles plus two long ones
Spanishespírula, spirula
Catalanespírula, spirula

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