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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
spirula
    n 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 [syn: spirula, Spirula peronii]
2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Spirula \Spir"u*la\, n. [NL., dim. of L. spira a coil.] (Zool.)
   A genus of cephalopods having a multilocular, internal,
   siphunculated shell in the form of a flat spiral, the coils
   of which are not in contact.
   [1913 Webster]
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