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(The syllabode/octopode thing made me think of an amoeba's pseudopod, the plural of which is usually pseudopodia.)
Wired Campus 2010
chained_bear commented on the word octopode
"'They leap about the rigging, encouraged by the bosun, as though they were octopodes, with prehensile tails into the bargain; so of course every time there is a tempest my sick-bay fills.'"
--Patrick O'Brian, The Far Side of the World, 218
February 23, 2008
mollusque commented on the word octopode
Octopodes is a plural of octopus; "octopode" is madeupical.
February 23, 2008