a. [f. prec. + -OUS.] Belonging to the Cephalopoda; pertaining to or characteristic of a cephalopod.
1833. Blackw. Mag., XXXIV. 392.
1877. Huxley, Anat. Inv. Anim., viii. 528. The apparent resemblances between the cephalopodous and the vertebrate eye are merely superficial.
