octopus
n.
carnivorous eight-legged sea creature with a large soft head and two rows of suckers on the underside of each leg (usually lives on the bottom of the ocean)
Octopus
The octopus (
Greek , 'eight-legs', with plural forms: octopuses, octopi, or octopodes, see below) is a
cephalopod of the
order Octopoda that inhabits many diverse regions of the
ocean, especially
coral reefs. The term may also refer to only those creatures in the
genus Octopus. In the larger sense, there are 289 different octopus
species, which is over one-third of the total number of known cephalopod species.
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octopus
Noun
1. tentacles of octopus prepared as food
(hypernym) seafood
(part-holonym) devilfish
2. bottom-living cephalopod having a soft oval body with eight long tentacles
(synonym) devilfish
(hypernym) octopod
(member-holonym) genus Octopus
Octopus (der)
n.
octopus, eight-legged sea mollusk
octopus (de)
n.
octopus, carnivorous eight-legged sea creature with a large soft head and two rows of suckers on the underside of each leg (usually lives on the bottom of the ocean)