How to Use cephalopod in a Sentence

cephalopod

noun
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  • In 2015, Albertin led a team that sequenced the first genome of a cephalopod.
    — Fox News, 17 Jan. 2020
  • But now there’s proof these cephalopods sometimes hang out in small cities.
    — Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 17 Sep. 2017
  • Out of the many bizarre stories that have come out of 2017, one of the most bizarre might be this bit of cephalopod intrigue.
    — Lilian Min, Cosmopolitan, 1 Nov. 2017
  • In the case of the cephalopod, that action changes how light is reflected off its skin.
    — Washington Post, 24 June 2019
  • This dashing cephalopod is on eBay! 100% of his sale will go straight to @mealsonwheelsamerica to help out folks in need of food in these weird times.
    — oregonlive, 25 Apr. 2020
  • And since 2012, he's been looking at the vision of cephalopods, the class of mollusks of which cuttlefish are a part.
    — Ryan Prior, CNN, 9 Jan. 2020
  • The eight legs of the cephalopod represented the eight games the team needed to win in order to win the Stanley Cup.
    — Chris Chase, For The Win, 16 Apr. 2018
  • That’s partly because records of imports of cephalopods to the United States are spotty and out of date.
    — Eric Scigliano, National Geographic, 15 Oct. 2019
  • Critters from sea otters to cephalopods have been observed using tools in the wild.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 22 Jan. 2018
  • These soft-bodied, golf ball-size cephalopods don’t have much to protect them from predators like seals, eels and fish.
    — Quanta Magazine, 19 Feb. 2019
  • The tentacles of the massive cephalopod left golf ball-size suction marks on the skin of the shark, a seven-foot oceanic whitetip.
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, National Geographic, 5 June 2020
  • In a 2017 study, some of the same researchers found that cephalopods extensively edit their RNA.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 June 2023
  • Somehow the bird carved out a niche for itself, chasing fish and squishy cephalopods along the ancient coasts of North America and parts of Asia.
    — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Oct. 2023
  • Both sides of the cephalopod's personality are on display in this video from the BBC.
    — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 5 Jan. 2013
  • Both are extinct species of small cephalopod mollusks and are in abundance on Charmouth Beach.
    — David Shaftel, New York Times, 23 May 2018
  • If not, will Spain continue to be so adoring toward the cephalopod ?
    — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 9 July 2010
  • After the cephalopod’s unfortunate run-in in the wild, a vendor caught and sold him to researchers in New York in early 2021.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 May 2023
  • By matching their skin to the background behind them, these cephalopods blend in almost seamlessly.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Feb. 2020
  • Such noise has already been shown to have adverse effects in fish, whales and other marine mammals as well as cephalopods.
    — Douglas Quenqua, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2017
  • To start your Hall of Fishes tour with a bang, stop by the Pacific Octopus tank, where the curious cephalopod spends a lot of time pressed up against the glass.
    — Karla Peterson, sandiegouniontribune.com, 26 May 2017
  • The cephalopod brain — the largest of any invertebrate — is still something of a mystery to scientists.
    — Quanta Magazine, 26 July 2016
  • The researchers wanted to follow up on that earlier work to see what factors might drive RNA editing in cephalopods.
    — Rachel Nuwer, Scientific American, 8 June 2023
  • An enormous 14-foot long squid has washed up on the shores of Wellington, New Zealand, prompting images of the colossal cephalopod to go viral.
    — Chris Ciaccia, Fox News, 27 Aug. 2018
  • The first photos of the cephalopod were taken by Japanese scientists in 2004, and the first video eight years later, also near Japan.
    — Chase Purdy, Quartz, 24 June 2019
  • Squids, octopuses, and other cephalopods are on a very different part of the tree of life from vertebrates.
    — Eva Frederick, Science | AAAS, 19 July 2019
  • The live-action film sees Ursula traversing her dark, fire-laden lair with the same strong, smooth and sometimes sudden movements of real-life cephalopods.
    — Ashley Lee, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2023
  • So while the jellyfish's gelatinous top might not have been rich in nutrients, the biomass from the remainder of its body likely sustains the large cephalopod.
    — National Geographic, 5 Apr. 2017
  • Autopsies from Gervais' beaked whale corpses tell us that the animals eat cephalopods, so Dykstra says the whales were probably drawn to squid that the sperm whales in the area were feeding on.
    — National Geographic, 9 Mar. 2018
  • To evaluate a cephalopod's beak, taxonomists will use chemicals to dissolve the tissues around the mouth, reports Hakai.
    — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Apr. 2021
  • The team plans to select one or more species of cephalopod — the group including squid, octopus, cuttlefish and nautilus — as part of their lineup.
    — Quanta Magazine, 27 July 2016

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