octopus
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- noun
- /ˈɑktəpəs/
:
pulpo
- The chef prepared a delicious dish featuring grilled octopus with garlic and lemon.
- octopus species
- octopus and squid
- sea octopus
And there's a lot, a lot more known about octopuses than giant cuttlefish.
- And there's a lot, a lot more known about octopuses than giant cuttlefish.
- And so do you know, so do octopuses have very complex brains?
- And, you know, and how much control can the octopus put on the limbs all the way through?
- And all the while there's this octopus judging you.
- So I'm learning all about mushrooms and octopuses and, you know, all kinds of stuff.
- They there's that octopus, the man this.
- Yeah, there is a pink Stanley with a little, a little cute kawaii octopus straw Topper.
Examples
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Crustaceans appeared in nearly every crevice, and one of us saw an octopus.
Academic text (2009) -
Do any of you know how to clean an octopus?
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An octopus has three hearts.
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For example, can you spot the octopus hiding in plain sight right here?
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So he says I interact with giant Pacific octopus a lot, which is what I'll be talking about today.
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The mother octopus kept the egg sac clean so that water could filter through.
Fiction book (1997) -
After laying her eggs, the female octopus stops eating and slowly starves to death.
Academic text (2002) -
At the aquarium, the children were fascinated by the octopus as it changed color and shape.
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An octopus can escape through surprisingly small openings due to its soft body.
Synonyms
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8.3
A sea animal with eight arms and no internal shell
An octopus with a soft body and eight long arms that lives on the sea floor
Compounds
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word octopus comes from the Greek oktōpous, made of oct- 'eight' and -pus 'foot', so picture an animal with 'eight feet'. That's why an octopus is a sea animal with eight long, flexible tentacles.