octopal

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Adjective

octopal (comparative more octopal, superlative most octopal)

  1. (uncommon) Octopuslike.
    • 1972, Mark J. Green, The closed enterprise system: Ralph Nader's study group report on antitrust enforcement:
      Textron, with 1970 sales of $1.6 billion, is a fast-growing new conglomerate with octopal interests: textiles, aircraft and parts, electronic equipment, iron and steel castings, bathroom fixtures, machine tools, plastic products, car parts, ...
    • 1976, Gus Tyler, Scarcity: A Critique of the American Economy, New York: Quadrangle/New York Times Book Company:
      This octopal reach by the oil companies had been several years in the making.
    • 2009, Hank Bordowitz, Every Little Thing Gonna Be Alright: The Bob Marley Reader, Da Capo Press, →ISBN:
      For 15 years Marley has been singing of a benighted people caught up in the octopal tentacles of an inept and often corrupt government.
    • 2014, John Shirley, Silicon Embrace, Start Publishing LLC, →ISBN:
      Ceph oozed off the stool, his babylegs and octopal tentacles helping him down the side, ...

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