ALL meanings of octopus
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O o - noun octopus animal 1
- noun octopus organization with many arms 1
- noun plural octopus any octopod of the genus Octopus, having a soft, oval body and eight sucker-bearing arms, living mostly at the bottom of the sea. 1
- noun plural octopus something likened to an octopus, as an organization with many forms of far-reaching influence or control. 1
- noun octopus A cephalopod mollusk with eight sucker -bearing arms, a soft saclike body, strong beaklike jaws, and no internal shell. 1
- variable noun octopus An octopus is a soft sea creature with eight long arms called tentacles which it uses to catch food. 0
- variable noun octopus Octopus is this creature eaten as food. 0
- noun octopus 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) 0
- noun octopus a powerful influential organization with far-reaching effects, esp harmful ones 0
- noun octopus 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 0
- noun octopus anything suggesting an octopus; esp., an organization with branches that reach out in a powerful and influential manner 0