She probes and flexes her stylets under the skin to find these blood vessels, like the arms of an octopus reaching into the dark to carry out a dangerous deed.
Evolution made mosquitos into stealthy, sensitive vampires|Erica McAlister|October 15, 2020|Popular Science
After the sea pigs, a scattering of octopuses came into view.
Whales get a second life as deep-sea buffets|Stephen Ornes|October 15, 2020|Science News For Students
What ensues is an incredibly beautiful film about the ecosystem of the kelp forest, the intelligence and amazing abilities of the octopus, and a man’s poignant relationship with a wild creature.
Everything Our Editors Loved in September|The Editors|October 8, 2020|Outside Online
While exploring a kelp forest, he discovers a female octopus and makes a commitment to go see her every day for a year to learn about her life and to see if she will befriend him.
Everything Our Editors Loved in September|The Editors|October 8, 2020|Outside Online
Other bacteria from this group make TTX in pufferfish, the blue-ringed octopus and sea snails.
Toxic germs on its skin make this newt deadly|Erin Garcia de Jesus|June 23, 2020|Science News For Students
Sadly, Paul the Octopus did not outlive his impressive but unpopular World Cup predictions by long.
The Amazing Tale of Paul the Psychic Octopus: Germany’s World Cup Soothsayer|Emily Shire|July 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST
It's at a time like this that Germans yearn most for Paul the Octopus, the great mollusk soothsayer for Germany.
The Amazing Tale of Paul the Psychic Octopus: Germany’s World Cup Soothsayer|Emily Shire|July 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Octopus is one of those sleazy and boorish Americans whose instincts prove correct.
This 1979 Novel Predicted Putin’s Invasion Of Crimea|Michael Weiss|May 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST
They are the Tarpon, the Falcon, the Sea Fox, and the Octopus.
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Instead, as Guy Lawson writes in Octopus, Israel engineered a haphazard plan to fake his own death.
First Rule of the Fake Dead Bankers Club: Stay Gone|Daniel Gross|January 3, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In the first place, it may surprise you to know that the Octopus's body is made on the same plan as that of the snail.
Within the Deep|R. Cadwallader Smith
One of these was called the Octopus, the first submarine to be fitted with twin screws.
Aircraft and Submarines|Willis J. Abbot.
He was a football player too; his hug was that of an octopus which swallowed you all.
Lore of Proserpine|Maurice Hewlett
When the octopus reached the shore off ran the rat into the bush.
Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before|George Turner
It was seen in the turtle, the sea eel, the octopus, and the garden lizard.
Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before|George Turner
British Dictionary definitions for octopus
octopus
/ (ˈɒktəpəs) /
nounplural-puses
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)
a powerful influential organization with far-reaching effects, esp harmful ones
another name for spider (def. 8)
Word Origin for octopus
C18: via New Latin from Greek oktōpous having eight feet