Ocean dweller with a beak

Usage examples of octopus.

Rather than eight arms like an octopus or the ten of a squid, the ammonite waved more tentacles than Sharina could count in her brief glimpse.

At the bottom of the glass aquarium wagon, the octopus stretches over green rocks.

He had a human body that he stole off some bogman of a farmer that gave him a lift but you knew by the twisted sneer that inside he was a fat green blob with tentacles like an octopus and his face all scales.

That they belonged to a sub-class of a dibranchiate, class of cephalopods and represent a special, hitherto unknown, family of the order of octopuses.

Spider-Man, Peter had seen the escapes of Electro, Mysterio, and Doctor Octopus hit the moving headlines on the news building in Times Square.

Marcella and Victor called out the names of every fish in sight, about fifty in all: iridescent sardines and anchovies flashing silver and turquoise, flying fish with pointed beaks and snails creeping nowhere in their glossy spotted shells, tiny gray shrimp jumping like crickets and huge blue shrimp too stately to move, clams with shells bearing Navajo designs and scallops as small as aspirins, delicate flatfish for grilling or frying and bony striped fish for soup or risotto, diamond-shaped turbot and broad fans of skate, ink-stained cuttlefish, octopus, squid.

Outdoors at night, with too much liquor in their bellies, so-called gentlemen seemed to revert to their basest forms: lechers, oglers, octopuses with multiple, groping hands.

Is there any hope for further support from Pointsman, now that Porkyevitch and His Fabulous Octopus have done their part?

Glistening with slime, he head resembled an octopus with pupilless, milky white eyes.

Arlette Davidson, solid southern woman, had given me a tagine, lovely Algerian stew with prunes in it, and here I got seiches, the white octopus which is so good with americaine sauce and rice.

The great experimental merit of Aplysia, by contrast with Drosophila, which has as many neurons, or the octopus, which has far more, is that many of the Aplysia neurons are very large - up to a millimetre or so in diameter - and they are located in characteristic and recognizable patterns, which are reproducible from animal to animal.

The headless oysters or clams are mollusks that seem no more intelligent to us than a spring of grass would be, but the related octopus, also a mollusk, we accept as possibly intelligent because it has a head--and eyes.

The peristaltic pulse of the thick stuff always made Cari think of quicksand, of sand-colored octopi creeping along an ocean floor, of week-old oatmeal.

One of its beliefs was in Ru-Taki-Nuhu, the Heaven Propper, a giant octopus that had fallen from the sky to sleep beneath the waves, awaiting the end of the world, during which it would drink up the oceans.

Gary gives you any shit, ask him how long it took to clean the barf off the Octopus after letting a townie ride when his face was puke green.