cephalo

The arms or feet (podos in Greek) of these animals are on the front of their head ( "cephalo" comes from the Greek kephale, for head).

DCist Sommer Mathis 2010

The cephalo-pod's short arms writhed, working at the prey in its grasp.

Odyssey Moore, Vance 2001

The cephalo-pod's short arms writhed, working at the prey in its grasp.

Odyssey Moore, Vance 2001

In the cephalo-thorax of the lobster, however, this is disguised.

On the Genesis of Species St. George Mivart

(Figs. 3 and 4), beneath the cephalo-thorax; and flat processes (Fig. 2), called "swimmerets," beneath the so-called tail or abdomen.

On the Genesis of Species St. George Mivart

In the latter animal we have a six-jointed abdomen (the so-called tail), {161} in front of which is a large solid mass (the cephalo-thorax), terminated anteriorly by a jointed process (the rostrum).

On the Genesis of Species St. George Mivart

This would indicate one of the large sea turtles, and there is not much doubt that either the Loggerhead turtle (_Thalassochelys cephalo_) or the Hawksbill (_Chelone imbricata_) is here intended.

Animal Figures in the Maya Codices 1915

Brazilian species of shore-crab (Gelasimus) the female is grayish-brown, while in the male the posterior part of the cephalo-thorax is pure white, with the anterior part of a rich green.

Darwinism (1889) Alfred Russel Wallace 1868

"Probably in some instances the poor scorpion has been burnt to death; and the well-known habit of these creatures to raise the tail over the back and recurve it so that the extremity touches the fore part of the cephalo-thorax, has led to the idea that it was stinging itself."

The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806

They like the erotic feelings they get when watching a cybernetic octopus and an Asian octopus gently and slowly drape their clammy tentacles over each other, in a prelude to mind-blowingly hot cephalo-sex.

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