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Poulp \Poulp\, Poulpe \Poulpe\, n. [F. poulpe, fr. L. polypus. See Polyp.] (Zo["o]l.) Same as Octopus.
Musk poulp (Zo["o]l.), a Mediterranean octopod ( Eledone moschata) which emits a strong odor of musk.
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n. (alternative form of poulpe English)
Usage examples of "poulp".
Another Bishop, Pontoppidan, speaks also of a poulp on which a regiment of cavalry could manoeuvre.
However, Captain Nemo had rushed to the poulp, and with one blow of the axe had cut through one arm.
For one instant, I thought the unhappy man, entangled with the poulp, would be torn from its powerful suction.
That friend, crushed, stifled, bruised by the dreadful arms of a poulp, pounded by his iron jaws, would not rest with his comrades in the peaceful coral cemetery!
Abraham Lincoln--the submarine hunt, the Torres Straits, the savages of Papua, the running ashore, the coral cemetery, the passage of Suez, the Island of Santorin, the Cretan diver, Vigo Bay, Atlantis, the iceberg, the South Pole, the imprisonment in the ice, the fight among the poulps, the storm in the Gulf Stream, the Avenger, and the horrible scene of the vessel sunk with all her crew.
Ten or twelve poulps now invaded the platform and sides of the Nautilus.
Not only is it supposed that these poulps can draw down vessels, but a certain Olaü.
Then, infested with poulps, medusæ, and cuttle-fish, they would become immense centers of infection, since their waves would not possess "these vast stomachs that God had charged to infest the surface of the seas.
Not only is it supposed that these poulps can draw down vessels, but a certain Olaüs Magnus speaks of a cephalopod a mile long, that is more like an island than an animal.
One cannot deny that poulps and cuttle-fish exist of a large species, inferior, however, to the cetaceans.
Some skeletons of poulps are preserved in the museums of Trieste and Montpellier, that measure two yards in length.
Without noticing or speaking to us, he went to the panel, looked at the poulps, and said something to his lieutenant.
Not only is it supposed that these poulps can draw down vessels, but a certain Olaus Magnus speaks of an octopus a mile long that is more like an island than an animal.
One cannot deny that poulps and cuttlefish exist of a large species, inferior, however, to the cetaceans.
Some skeletons of poulps are preserved in the museums of Trieste and Montpelier, that measure two yards in length.