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单词 octopus
释义 octopus
 /ok"teuh peuhs/,  n.  ,  pl.   octopuses, octopi /-puy'/.
  1. any octopod of the genus Octopus, having a soft, oval body and eight sucker-bearing arms, living mostly at the bottom of the sea.
  2. something likened to an octopus, as an organization with many forms of far-reaching influence or control.
 [1750-60; < NL < Gk októpous (pl. októpodes) eight-footed; see OCTO-, -POD]
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