[mod.L., a. Gr. ἐλεδώνη a kind of polypus.] A cephalopod of the tribe Octopoda.
1835–6. Todd, Cycl. Anat., I. 528/2. In the … Eledone the suckers are soft and unarmed.
1854. Woodward, Mollusca (1856), 35. The eledone makes twenty respirations per minute, when resting quietly in a basin of water.
1878. Bell, trans. Gegenbaur’s Comp. Anat., 327. The modified end of the arm in Eledone and Octopus.
