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单词 octopian
释义 ocˈtopian, a.
[f. octopus + -ian.]
Suggestive of an octopus; = octopean a. Also ocˈtopic [-ic], ˈoctopine [-ine1], adjs.
1914Chesterton Flying Inn 248 The Captain prepared to swing himself on to one of the octopine branches [of a tree].1922C. E. Montague Disenchantment i. 11 He had..struck..a crate, from which some octopian beast..had reached out at him.1968Punch 6 Nov. 667/3 The sight of a Breton fisherman pulling the suckers off a live octopic leg.
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