What is "decapods"

Usage examples of "decapods".

It was a throwback to a less civilized epoch of Nar development, when two primitive decapods, meeting for the first time on some tidal flat, would literally have sounded each other out before entrusting their tender inner parts to a stranger.

Tha-tha paused to talk to Bram and to introduce him to one of the older decapods who accompanied him.

Bram could appreciate why the skein of decapods had remained twined together.

Bram, lying helpless, saw her light the wick of the composite bomb she had been molding and, despite the handicap of her half-grown flipper, chuck it high over the toiling mass of decapods and humans.

A number of times Bram saw decapods from the outer layers pick their way through the interlocking pattern of tentacles and take their places in the front row of examiners.

There was a long delay while something unnameable surged through the conclave, out to its outer edges, and to the satellite conclaves beyond, then back again, bearing the flotsam of all those decapods who had ever known anything about the creation of man.

He had gained their sharp attention — that he did know from the sudden stillness out across the narscape as billions of decapods forgot to breathe.

She wondered whether she was looking at a male or a female, or if indeed the decapods were even a two-sex species and not a one or a three.

In the face of this disaster, PETAL would want her to save however many decapods she could.

You see, I'd observed certain behavior-- The decapods seemed to be signaling to each other.

There, a race of intelligent decapods who called themselves the Nar had intercepted the radio waves and deciphered them.

There's some big things out there, decapods, jellyfish, eels as thick as your body with jaws that could bite a man in half.