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OCTOPUS
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Irregular inflected form: octopi
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Bottom-living cephalopod having a soft oval body with eight long tentacles
Synonyms:
devilfish; octopus
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("octopus" is a kind of...):
octopod (a cephalopod with eight arms but lacking an internal shell)
Meronyms (parts of "octopus"):
octopus (tentacles of octopus prepared as food)
Holonyms ("octopus" is a member of...):
genus Octopus (type genus of the family Octopodidae)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Tentacles of octopus prepared as food
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("octopus" is a kind of...):
seafood (edible fish (broadly including freshwater fish) or shellfish or roe etc)
Holonyms ("octopus" is a part of...):
devilfish; octopus (bottom-living cephalopod having a soft oval body with eight long tentacles)
Context examples:
Deep-sea octopuses usually live in cold waters.
(Giant group of octopus moms discovered in the deep sea, National Science Foundation)
Octopuses have thousands of color-changing cells called chromatophores that lie just under the surface of the skin.
(Octopuses can dream, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The researchers found that protocadherins are 10 times more common in octopus genes than in mammals.
(First-ever octopus genome sequenced, NSF)
Dorado Outcrop is not a great place to start an octopus family.
(Giant group of octopus moms discovered in the deep sea, National Science Foundation)
Octopuses have amazed scientists for centuries —these underwater creatures can open jars, recognize faces and now a stunning video has suggested that they have dreams.
(Octopuses can dream, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The research reveals striking differences between genome of the octopus and other invertebrates.
(First-ever octopus genome sequenced, NSF)
However, the sheer number of what the scientists think were doomed octopuses and their eggs suggests that there's a better habitat nearby.
(Giant group of octopus moms discovered in the deep sea, National Science Foundation)
This allows octopuses to appear inconspicuous whatever their environment and change their skin tone to match their surroundings.
(Octopuses can dream, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Octopuses are cephalopods, a class of marine invertebrates with an evolutionary history spanning more than 500 million years.
(First-ever octopus genome sequenced, NSF)
The team suspects there must be more octopuses living inside crevices in rocks where the water is cool and rich in oxygen.
(Giant group of octopus moms discovered in the deep sea, National Science Foundation)
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