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octopus
(ɒktəpəs)
Word forms: plural octopuses
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An octopus is a soft sea creature with eight long arms called tentacles which it uses to catch food.
Octopus is this creature eaten as food.
octopus in British English
(ˈɒktəpəs)
nounWord forms: plural -puses
1.
any cephalopod mollusc of the genera Octopus, Eledone, etc, having a soft oval body with eight long suckered tentacles and occurring at the sea bottom: order Octopoda (octopods)
2.
a powerful influential organization with far-reaching effects, esp harmful ones
3. another name for spider (sense 8)
Word origin
C18: via New Latin from Greek oktōpous having eight feetoctopus in American English
(ˈɑktəpəs; ˈɑktəpʊs)
nounWord forms: plural ˈoctopuses, ˈoctoˌpi (ˈɑktəˌpaɪ), ocˈtopoˌdes (ɑkˈtɑpəˌdiz)
1.
any of various octopods (order Octopoda) having a soft, saclike body, a reduced coelom, an internal vestigial shell, and eight sucker-bearing arms around the mouth
2.
anything suggesting an octopus; esp., an organization with branches that reach out in a powerful and influential manner
Word origin
ModL < Gr oktōpous, eight-footed < oktō, eight + pous (gen. podos), footImage ofoctopus
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British English: octopus /ˈɒktəpəs/ NOUN
An octopus is a sea creature with eight tentacles.
- American English: octopus
- Arabic: أخْطَبُوطٌ
- Brazilian Portuguese: polvo
- Chinese: 章鱼
- Croatian: hobotnica
- Czech: chobotnice
- Danish: blæksprutte
- Dutch: octopus
- European Spanish: pulpo
- Finnish: mustekala
- French: pieuvre
- German: Tintenfisch
- Greek: χταπόδι
- Italian: polipo
- Japanese: タコ 動物
- Korean: 문어
- Norwegian: blekksprut
- Polish: ośmiornica
- European Portuguese: polvo
- Romanian: caracatiță
- Russian: осьминог
- Latin American Spanish: pulpo
- Swedish: bläckfisk
- Thai: ปลาหมึกยักษ์
- Turkish: ahtapot
- Ukrainian: восьминіг
- Vietnamese: con bạch tuộc
Chinese translation of 'octopus'
octopus
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章鱼(魚)
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