octopus
Other forms: octopi; octopuses
An octopus is an eight-legged sea creature. Octopuses are intelligent animals, and have been shown to have great capacity for learning. (However, that doesn't stop people from grilling and eating them.)
An octopus is a mollusk, which means it's a distant relation of slugs, snails, clams, and mussels. It's also a cephalopod, an animal with a large head and tentacles or arms. Of the other animals in these categories, octopuses are by far the smartest, and they're also incredibly flexible because of their lack of a skeleton or hard shell, which makes them able to squeeze through tiny spaces. The Greek root, oktopous, means "eight-foot."
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bottom-living cephalopod having a soft oval body with eight long tentacles
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tentacles of octopus prepared as food
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type of:
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seafood
edible fish (broadly including freshwater fish) or shellfish or roe etc
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seafood
/ˈɑktəpəs/
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