[prob. a. mod.F. cephalopode, -es, ad. mod.L. cephalopoda: see next.] An animal of the class Cephalopoda.
1826. Kirby & Spence, Entomol. (1828), IV. xlv. 243. The Cephalopods have no smell.
1835–6. Todd, Cycl. Anat., I. 519/2. Cephalopods resembling the Nautilus.
1881. Modern Rev., II. No. 5. 45. The habits of a cephalopod.
