octopods

Something in an area that can provide a decent range of temperatures for the various species of tree octopi correct per North American usage–octopodia or octopods is the Continental term.–for example Hawaii.

save the endangered tree octopus « raincoaster 2006

"To our disappointment," the scientists wrote last month in The Biological Bulletin, "we have not found any evidence that any of the blobs are the remains of gigantic octopods, or sea monsters of unknown species."

apocalyptic odds & ends Gwenda 2004

On their right was the tent of the Master of the Mountain, that world-famous fortune-teller by crystals and chiromancy; a rich purple tent, all over which were traced, in black and gold, the sprawling outlines of Asiatic gods waving any number of arms like octopods.

The Complete Father Brown 2003

On their right was the tent of the Master of the Mountain, that world-famous fortune-teller by crystals and chiromancy; a rich purple tent, all over which were traced, in black and gold, the sprawling outlines of Asiatic gods waving any number of arms like octopods.

The Complete Father Brown 2003

There were multipointed stars of six -, eight-fold, and even higher degrees of symmetry; spirals that sometimes resembled the trunks of elephants, and at other times the tentacles of octopods; black amoebae linked by networks of contorted tendrils; faceted, compound insect eyes ....

The Ghost from the Grand Banks Clarke, Arthur C. 1990

There were multipointed stars of six -, eight-fold, and even higher degrees of symmetry; spirals that sometimes resembled the trunks of elephants, and at other times the tentacles of octopods; black amoebae linked by networks of contorted tendrils; faceted, compound insect eyes ....

The Ghost from the Grand Banks Clarke, Arthur C. 1990

Professor Winchell goes on to tell that these cuttlefish or octopods sometimes attain a very great size, and that sailors tell wonderful stories about them.

The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 16, February 25, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls Various

For in these latter the cornea is at first perforated, while different degrees of perforation of the same part are presented by different adult cuttle-fishes -- large in the calamaries, smaller in the octopods, and reduced to a minute foramen in the true cuttle-fish sepia.

On the Genesis of Species St. George Mivart

He was quite small, as octopods go, and young, yet he was large and powerful enough to have drowned an ox.

The Blue Lagoon: a romance 1907

But happily they had now reached the tank of the octopods.

Weighed and Wanting George MacDonald 1864