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- noun Plural form of
octopede .
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There is one class of spiders, industrious, hard-working octopedes, who, out of the sweat of their brains (I take it, by the by, that a spider must have a fine craniological development), make their own webs and catch their flies.
Night and Morning, Volume 1 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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There is one class of spiders, industrious, hard-working octopedes, who, out of the sweat of their brains (I take it, by the by, that a spider must have a fine craniological development), make their own webs and catch their flies.
Night and Morning, Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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