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English
Etymology
From octopod + -al.
Adjective
octopodal (not comparable)
- Octopoid, octopuslike.
- Of, pertaining to, or resembling an octopod, a creature with eight feet or legs; eight-footed.
1830, Pierre Augustin Beclard, translated by Robert Knox, Elements of General Anatomy: translated from the last edition of the French ... With notes and corrections, by Robert Knox, page 25:The Arachnides or octopodal articulate animals, whose head, which is destitute of antennae, is confounded with the […]
1882, The British Veterinary Journal, page 324:The metamorphoses of the parasite comprise three periods: larval, hexapodal, and octopodal.
1893, Wallace's Monthly, page 679:Why they may conclude that the time-destroying, space swallowing Nancy was—as Jacob Grimm called Odin's no less famous horse, Sleipnir—an octopod! And the disputing savants will have as hot a time of it about Nancy, […] being an octopodal reminiscence of tbe Miocene horse, just as we are to-day discussing the probability or improbability of Sleipnir, […]
2014, J. L. Langland, Into The Abyss: Council of Wizardry, pages 356 and 359:Rupert looked down at himself. "He doesn't go out like that." Edwyrd answered the octopodal demon on his bed. […] As it got closer she realized it was a very large bird with eight legs! "Shit! that's no bird, that's the goddess-cursed demon friend of Tom's that tried to subvert Rupert."
2014, Stephan Grundy, Miscellaneous Studies Towards the Cult of Ódinn, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 15:The eight-legged horse does not appear thereafter until the Gotlandic picture-stones, which may suggest any of several things: that the octopodal steed was not a .significant element […]
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