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Encephala

Encephala

See also: encephala

Translingual

Wikispecies

Proper noun

Encephala

  1. (archaic) A non-taxonomic, informal classification, within phylum Mollusca - those in the classes having heads: Cephalopoda, Pteropoda and Gasteropoda
    • 1854, Philip Henry Gosse, Natural History, page 57:
      Naturalists arrange the Mollusca in six classes, named Cephalopoda, Pteropoda, Gasteropoda, Conchifera, Brachiopoda, and Tunicata. Of these the first three are sometimes distinguished as Encephala, or furnished with a head; the last three as Acephala, being destitute of that organ.

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encephala

encephala

See also: Encephala

English

Noun

encephala

  1. plural of encephalon
  2. plural of encephalum