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Noun: spirula
  1. A small tropical cephalopod of the genus Spirula having prominent eyes and short arms and a many-chambered shell coiled in a flat spiral
    "Spirula shells are often found washed up on beaches";
    - Spirula peronii

Derived forms: spirulas

Type of: decapod

Part of: genus Spirula

Encyclopedia: Spirula