Crossword clues for octopod
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Octopod \Oc"to*pod\, n. [Gr. ? eight-footed; 'oktw` eight + poy`s, podo`s, foot: cf. F. octopode.] (Zo["o]l.) One of the Octocerata.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1826 (adj.); 1835 (n.), from Latinized form of Greek oktopod-, from stem of oktopous (see octopus).
Wiktionary
n. 1 Any animal with eight foot or foot-like parts. 2 Any cephalopod mollusks of the order Octopoda.
WordNet
n. eight-armed cephalopod lacking an internal shell
Usage examples of "octopod".
Instantly the octopod whirled around, presenting its eating-mouth, open in a flash of teeth.
The selkie, Khaphthash, reached over a hand and helped her back to her feet as the octopod returned to its former position.
Suppose Volkov succeeds, and Nova Terra is all geared up to fight an octopod invasion.
Llawan propelled herself forward on a powerful stream of water jetted from her octopod body.
With some slightly higher-level processing it conveyed its thanks and congratulations on the defeat of the octopod invasion.
It showed a smiling and handsome young man in a spacesuit, helmet under one arm, and a crushed octopod under one foot.
This was one of the octopod alien invaders that Volkov had warned about, and it was in here and thousands of its like were out there, and somehow he was not alarmed by it.
The entire row in front of him was filled with longshoremen: octopod longshoremen.
Despite all appeals, the octopods persisted in digging on the surfaces of asteroids and comets.
The octopods and their allies fled, while the saurs and krakens who remained behind labored to repair the damage done.
From these the gods learned that the octopods were a few tens of light-years away, and heading toward the Solar System.
Scattered among them, octopods swung or scampered with the liquid grace of gibbons.