octopus
pronunciation
How to pronounce octopus in British English:
UK [ˈɒktəpəs]
How to pronounce octopus in American English:
US [ˈɑktəpəs]
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- Noun:
- tentacles of octopus prepared as food
- bottom-living cephalopod having a soft oval body with eight long tentacles
Word Origin
- octopus (n.)
- 1758, genus name of a type of eight-armed cephalopod mollusks, from Greek oktopous, literally "eight-footed," from okto "eight" (see eight) + pous "foot," from PIE root *ped- (1) "a foot" (see foot (n.)). Proper plural is octopodes, though octopuses probably works better in English. Octopi is from mistaken assumption that -us in this word is the Latin noun ending that takes -i in plural.
Example
- 1. We recently found this octopus shower curtain by thomas paul .
- 2. He has plans to test different species of octopus soon .
- 3. The blue ringed octopus is tiny and beautiful .
- 4. In south korea , octopus is perhaps second in popularity only to kimchi , the unofficial national dish .
- 5. Despite being only the size of a golf ball , the blue-ringed octopus can really pack a punch .