octopod

[ ok-tuh-pod ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

any eight-armed cephalopod mollusk of the order or suborder Octopoda, including the octopuses and paper nautiluses.

octopod

/ ˈɒktəˌpɒd /

any cephalopod mollusc of the order Octopoda, including octopuses and the paper nautilus, having eight tentacles, and lacking an internal shell

Origin of octopod¹

1820–30; < New Latin Octopoda name of the order < Greek oktṓpoda neuter plural of oktṓpous eight-footed. See octo-, -pod

While she looked, studiously ignoring the man behind her, Virginia saw the big octopod engine clamoring up the grade.

After a molt, they transform into nymphs which, like the adult, have four pairs of legs and are called octopod nymphs.

These molt on the sixteenth day to form an octopod nymph, which molts again the twenty-first day.

Dutton and Todd observed that the larval stage is undergone in the egg and that the first free stage is that of the octopod nymph.

And he swung over the railing and dropped off to mount the octopod and to race it back to the front.

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