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  • adjective Octopus-like.
  • adjective Pertaining to octopods.

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Examples

  • Try Irish comedy Grabbers, in which drunk villagers fight octopoid space monsters.

    Populist: Items of interest this week 2012

  • Indeed, one Pepsi ad already features an octopoid endorsement, but it lacks Paul's personal seal of approval.

    Paul The Octopus Could Be Worth MILLIONS (PHOTOS) 2010

  • With a dreadful effort, he lifted out of his sack an enormous octopoid creature with great mammalian eyes.

    Snakes Henry Ronan-Daniell 2009

  • The second in our apparently-ongoing series of baroque octopoid lighting fixtures, here is a lovely example of neo-Goth-octo home accessory art.

    Cthulhu Cthandelier 2.0 « raincoaster 2007

  • The second in our apparently-ongoing series of baroque octopoid lighting fixtures, here is a lovely example of neo-Goth-octo home accessory art.

    2007 January 28 « raincoaster 2007

  • “No time to wait,” it said, frantically waving the six tentacles that dangled from its octopoid head.

    Creative Couplings John S. Drew 2005

  • 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

  • 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.

    Atheism and Supernatural Horror, Part I 2005

  • “No time to wait,” it said, frantically waving the six tentacles that dangled from its octopoid head.

    Creative Couplings John S. Drew 2005

  • “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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