octopodian

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English

Etymology

From octopod +‎ -ian.

Adjective

octopodian (comparative more octopodian, superlative most octopodian)

  1. Resembling an octopus; octopuslike.
    • 1887, Arthur Campbell Yate, England and Russia Face to Face in Asia: Travels with the Afghan Boundary Commission, page 371:
      Once the Russians had installed themselves at Merv, and drawn within their octopodian arms the Tekkes, the Salors, and part of the Saruks, they thereby established just the shadow of a specious claim to the suzerainty of all the Turkomans, ...
    • 1911, Aida Rodman De Milt, Ways and Days Out of London, page 18:
      ... farther than could have been supposed — suddenly let go, and, having passed out of the city, we found ourselves gliding through a landscape of surpassing loveliness which gave no hint of the nearness of the octopodian monster.
    • 2001, B.D. Basu, Rise of the Christian power in India, →ISBN:
      The Marquess Wellesley tried to draw within the octopodian arms of his co-religionists and compatriots all the Maratha States by forging on them the fetters of the subsidiary alliance.
    • 2007, Amia Kettier, Awakening, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 144:
      There were a few unusual creatures, like the octopodian creature that slithered along upright on tentacles and regarded her with bulbous eyes that had stars for pupils. Or the purple furry creature that walked on all four of its hands.
    • 2013, K. M. Alexander, The Stars Were Right, K. M. Alexander, →ISBN:
      Not sure how much I believe it—they tend to keep to themselves, spending most of their time in their underwater colonies in the Sunk. Cephels' octopodian heritage make them excellent fishermen and shellfish collectors.
  2. Octopodal, resembling an octopod (an organism with eight feet or legs); eight-legged, eight-footed.
    • 1901, Queensland Agricultural Journal, page 261:
      On the 16th some of the ticks cast their skin for the first time, and are now at the stage of octopodian nymphae, for now they have four pairs of legs.
    • 2010, Christian Miller, A Childhood In Scotland, Canongate Books, →ISBN:
      Centipedes hastened past, legs moving in agitated undulations; tiny red spiders pounced, like octopodian tigers from another, microscopic world, on prey so infinitesimal that it was impossible to see whether it crawled or flew.

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