Meaning Of The Word Octopus

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octopus
variable noun: An octopus is a soft sea creature with eight long arms called tentacles which it uses to catch food.

octopus in American English
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
noun: any octopod of the genus Octopus, having a soft, oval body and eight sucker-bearing arms, living mostly at the bottom of the sea

octopus in British English
noun: 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)

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