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Octopus vs. Shark
See who wins in this footage of a shark's fight with an octopus.
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See who wins in this footage of a shark's fight with an octopus.
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : Octopus
Spanish:
pulpo,
German:
der Krake,
Japanese:
たこ
octopus
1758, genus name of a type of eight-armed cephalopod mollusks, from Gk. oktopous "eight-footed," from okto "eight" (see eight) + pous "foot." Proper plural is octopodes, though octopuses probably works better in English. Octopi is from mistaken assumption that -us is the L. noun ending that takes -i in plural.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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