Hypertext Webster Gateway: "octopus"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Octopus \Oc"to*pus\, n. [NL. See {Octopod}.] (Zo["o]l.)
A genus of eight-armed cephalopods, including numerous
species, some of them of large size. See {Devilfish},
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
octopus
n 1: tentacles of octopus prepared as food
2: bottom-living cephalopod having a soft oval body with eight
long tentacles [syn: {devilfish}]
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