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noun
Any mollusk of the cephalopod genus Spirula, of which Spirula spirula is the only extant species.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
a small tropical cephalopod of the genus Spirula having prominent eyes and short arms and a many-chambered shell coiled in a flat spiral
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Spirula peronii
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Broader terms: decapod
History
Diminutive of Latin spira (“a coil”)
