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Meaning Of Hectocotylus
n.
One of the arms of the male of most kinds of
cephalopods, which is specially modified in various ways to effect the
fertilization of the eggs. In a special sense, the greatly modified arm
of Argonauta and allied genera, which, after receiving the
spermatophores, becomes detached from the male, and attaches itself to
the female for reproductive purposes.