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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

DECACERATA

De *cac `e *ra "ta, n. pl. Etym: [NL. , fr. Gr. de `ka ten + ke `ras a horn. ] (Zoöl.)

 

Defn: The division of Cephalopoda which includes the squids, cuttlefishes, and others having ten arms or tentacles; -- called also Decapoda. [Written also Decacera.] See Dibranchiata.