cephalopod

Questions about cephalopod

What is another word for cephalopod?

It depends which cephalopod you mean. In the sense “marine mollusk characterized by well-developed head and eyes and sucker-bearing tentacles”, the synonyms are cephalopod mollusk. Across all 2 senses there are 2 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of cephalopod?

WordNet records no antonym for cephalopod. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Why are the synonyms for cephalopod split into groups?

Because cephalopod carries 2 recorded senses and each has its own set of substitutes. A single flat list would put words from unrelated meanings side by side with nothing to tell them apart, which is exactly how a writer picks the wrong one. The grouping comes from WordNet's synsets, not from an editorial judgement of ours.

Where do the synonyms for cephalopod come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of cephalopod

• Full entry for cephalopodAll 2 senses, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for cephalopodWords matching from the last stressed vowel onward, grouped by syllable count.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.