octopus
Any of several marine molluscs of the order Octopoda, having no internal or external protective shell or bone (unlike the nautilus, squid and cuttlefish) and eight arms each covered with suckers.
Other meanings
A mollusc from genus Octopus.
The flesh of these marine molluscs eaten as food.
A kind of
- seafood
Example sentences
Word history
From Ancient Greek "ὀκτώπους".
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This definition is adapted from “octopus” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.