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octopus

/ˈɒktəpʊs/ noun

In Latin: polypūs, octopūs Wiktionary

noun Definition from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about octopus at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

  1. Tentacles of octopus prepared as food.
  2. Bottom-living cephalopod having a soft oval body with eight long tentacles.

Origin

Borrowed from Latin octōpūs, from Ancient Greek ὀκτώπους (oktṓpous), from ὀκτώ (oktṓ, “eight”) + πούς (poús, “foot”). Piecewise doublet of octopod and octopede.

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