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Spirula

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Noun

1. spirula, spirula peronii

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

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Spirula

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noun
a tropical cephalopod mollusc, Spirula peronii, having prominent eyes, short arms, and a small flattened spirally coiled internal shell: order Decapoda (cuttlefish and squids)

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Spirula

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nounWord forms: plural ˈspiruˌlae (ˈspɪrjuˌli ; spirˈyo̅olēˌ; ˈspɪrʊˌli ; spirˈoolēˌ)
any of a genus (Spirula) of two-gilled, deep-water cephalopods, having a flat spiral shell with a series of chambers

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Spirula

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n. pl. spir·u·lae (-lē′)
A small squid of the genus Spirula, having a spirally coiled, chambered, internal shell often found on beaches.

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