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- adjective
Octopus -like. - adjective Pertaining to
octopods .
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Examples
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Try Irish comedy Grabbers, in which drunk villagers fight octopoid space monsters.
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Indeed, one Pepsi ad already features an octopoid endorsement, but it lacks Paul's personal seal of approval.
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With a dreadful effort, he lifted out of his sack an enormous octopoid creature with great mammalian eyes.
Snakes Henry Ronan-Daniell 2009
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The second in our apparently-ongoing series of baroque octopoid lighting fixtures, here is a lovely example of neo-Goth-octo home accessory art.
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The second in our apparently-ongoing series of baroque octopoid lighting fixtures, here is a lovely example of neo-Goth-octo home accessory art.
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“No time to wait,” it said, frantically waving the six tentacles that dangled from its octopoid head.
Creative Couplings John S. Drew 2005
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Even the extravagant "Cthulhu mythos" he spun out can be regarded as an extention of his atheism: Spanning the distance from the demon-sultan thrashing at the center of infinity to the octopoid manifestation of the human psyche dwelling the sunken ruins at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, Lovecraft gave a bodily form to the impersonal forces working quietly in the cosmos.
Archive 2005-09-25 2005
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Even the extravagant "Cthulhu mythos" he spun out can be regarded as an extention of his atheism: Spanning the distance from the demon-sultan thrashing at the center of infinity to the octopoid manifestation of the human psyche dwelling the sunken ruins at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, Lovecraft gave a bodily form to the impersonal forces working quietly in the cosmos.
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“No time to wait,” it said, frantically waving the six tentacles that dangled from its octopoid head.
Creative Couplings John S. Drew 2005
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“No time to wait,” it said, frantically waving the six tentacles that dangled from its octopoid head.
Creative Couplings John S. Drew 2005
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