subclass dibranchiata

1. 1.

   comprising all living cephalopods except the family Nautilidae: the orders Octopoda (octopuses) and Decapoda (squids and cuttlefish)

   SynonymsDibranchiataDibranchiasubclass Dibranchia

   Broaderclass

   Part ofCephalopoda

Questions about subclass dibranchiata

What does subclass dibranchiata mean?

subclass dibranchiata means "comprising all living cephalopods except the family Nautilidae: the orders Octopoda (octopuses) and Decapoda (squids and cuttlefish)".

What is another word for subclass dibranchiata?

Close synonyms include Dibranchiata, Dibranchia, subclass Dibranchia. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is subclass dibranchiata a common word?

subclass dibranchiata is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.