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noun • naked marine gastropod having a soft body with reduced internal shell and two pairs of ear-like tentacles | ||||||||
51% | 5 | ___ octopus, creature so named for its large, earlike fins | ||||||
noun • A stupid person. • "Stupid person," by 1951, American English, from dumb. The Disney musical cartoon is from 1941; in it the elephant's name is a mocking nickname based on Jumbo. | ||||||||
49% | 8 | From the Greek for “sailor”, a marine mollusc whose name originally referred to the floating argonaut octopus, wrongly believed by Aristotle to use its tentacles as sails | ||||||
noun • a submarine that is propelled by nuclear power • cephalopod mollusk of warm seas whose females have delicate papery spiral shells • cephalopod of the Indian and Pacific oceans having a spiral shell with pale pearly partitions | ||||||||
Marine Mollusk Named For Its Earlike Tentacles Crossword Clue
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