Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Changed into a hectocotylus, as an arm of certain cephalopods.
- Affected by a hectocotylus; impregnated, as a female cephalopod when she receives the detached male arm.
- Also spelled
hectocotylised .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Changed into a hectocotylus; having a hectocotylis.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Changed into a
hectocotylus . - adjective Having a
hectocotylus .
Etymologies
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hectocotylus + -ize + -ed
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