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Adjective: "(rare) resembling or characteristic of an octopus"
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1983, Mark Helprin, Winter's Tale, page 335:The harbor was complicated enough for Craig Binky once to have called it “octopusine,” and Asbury might easily have bumbled into Jamaica Bay or tried to fight the tidal rush in the East River, were it not for the pilot he had taken on.
1991, Thylias Moss, “God Bless Rita's Magic Hair”, in Rainbow Remnants in Rock Bottom Ghetto Sky, page 8: aberrations. This happened when Virginia
was pregnant with my husband; took the clay she
ate, hand-carried to Peoria by Jasper, into
those invisible hands (for which the ribs
were a kind of octopusine model) inside the body
and sculpted the baby she wanted to have, her
favorite of the nine because he was the one that
made her something besides mother: artist and
happy.
1995, Luiza Chwiałkowska, Katarzyna Drozd, Samuel P. Trumbull, Jol Andrew Silversmith, editors, Let's Go: The Budget Guide to Eastern Europe 1995, page 273:Seven local trains a day go to scenic Szilvasvarad (70min. 102Ft) passing through partially-scenic Bélapatfalva (where an octopusine cement factory strangles the green hills—45min, 76Ft).
1995, Colin Larkin, editors, The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music, page 312:Batu’s guitarist Chris Franck, after playing samba whilst studying for a degree in France, was tutored by two expatriate Brazilians, Pedro (guitar) and Beberto de Souza (octopusine percussion).
1996, Rohit Manchanda, editors, In the Light of the Black Sun, page 148:Then his body seemed to turn into rubber; it was as if his joints forgot that they existed, and his limbs turned into octopusine tentacles. His legs went over his head, and round his neck. His arms went under his legs and up his back.