Prefix meaning "eight"

Usage examples of octa.

Madam Octa immediately leaped through the air and landed on the goat's neck.

Madam Octa took no notice, hung on, and moved a few inches closer to the head.

He blew on the flute and Madam Octa moved up the goat's neck until she was standing on its ear.

Madam Octa slid down the other side of his face, along the scar, and walked around until she was standing upside down on his chin.

I hid the spider cage at the back of my closet, under a pile of clothes, leaving enough holes so Madam Octa could breathe.

It would have fed a normal spider for a day or two, but to Madam Octa it was no more than a light snack.

Crepsley had come, I would have been completely defenseless, but luckily, when I woke in the morning there was no sign of his having come, and Madam Octa was still resting in the closet.

I played with Madam Octa whenever I could, feeding her every afternoon (she only needed one meal a day, as long as it was a large one).

Madam Octa lay on the floor, quiet as ever, paying no attention to me or Steve.

I screamed inside my head, and Madam Octa leaped about two feet into the air.

I thought about Madam Octa and how I was going to explain this to Mom.

I was scared it would hit the ground and break open, because I knew if the doctors weren't able to save Steve by themselves, they might be able to with the help of Madam Octa: if they studied her, they might find out how to cure him.

I bet no doctor in the world had ever come across poison from a spider like Madam Octa before.

She hadn't mentioned Madam Octa since Steve recovered but I often found her watching me.

But it was also the home he made with his loving wife Octa and their two daughters Roella and Omilia.