octopus

/ok-tuh-puhs/US // ˈɒk tə pəs //UK // (ˈɒktəpəs) //

八爪鱼,章鱼,八带鱼,八角鱼

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
plural oc·to·pus·es, oc·to·pi [ok-tuh-pahy]. /ˈɒk təˌpaɪ/.
- : any octopod of the genus Octopus, having a soft, oval body and eight sucker-bearing arms, living mostly at the bottom of the sea.
- : something likened to an octopus, as an organization with many forms of far-reaching influence or control.

as incorporation

Synonyms

She probes and flexes her stylets under the skin to find these blood vessels, like the arms of an octopus reaching into the dark to carry out a dangerous deed.
After the sea pigs, a scattering of octopuses came into view.
What ensues is an incredibly beautiful film about the ecosystem of the kelp forest, the intelligence and amazing abilities of the octopus, and a man’s poignant relationship with a wild creature.
While exploring a kelp forest, he discovers a female octopus and makes a commitment to go see her every day for a year to learn about her life and to see if she will befriend him.
Other bacteria from this group make TTX in pufferfish, the blue-ringed octopus and sea snails.
Sadly, Paul the Octopus did not outlive his impressive but unpopular World Cup predictions by long.
It's at a time like this that Germans yearn most for Paul the Octopus, the great mollusk soothsayer for Germany.
The Oberhausen aquarium erected a memorial of the psychic octopus with a golden urn containing his ashes.
Octopus is one of those sleazy and boorish Americans whose instincts prove correct.
They are the Tarpon, the Falcon, the Sea Fox, and the Octopus.
Both Giddiness and the Ice-Maiden seize a man as an octopus seizes all within its reach.

/ok-tuh-puhs/US // ˈɒk tə pəs //UK // (ˈɒktəpəs) //

八爪鱼,章鱼,八带鱼,八角鱼

n.名词 noun

1
plural oc·to·pus·es, oc·to·pi [ok-tuh-pahy]. /ˈɒk təˌpaɪ/.
- : any octopod of the genus Octopus, having a soft, oval body and eight sucker-bearing arms, living mostly at the bottom of the sea.
- : something likened to an octopus, as an organization with many forms of far-reaching influence or control.

as incorporation

Synonyms

She probes and flexes her stylets under the skin to find these blood vessels, like the arms of an octopus reaching into the dark to carry out a dangerous deed.
After the sea pigs, a scattering of octopuses came into view.
What ensues is an incredibly beautiful film about the ecosystem of the kelp forest, the intelligence and amazing abilities of the octopus, and a man’s poignant relationship with a wild creature.
While exploring a kelp forest, he discovers a female octopus and makes a commitment to go see her every day for a year to learn about her life and to see if she will befriend him.
Other bacteria from this group make TTX in pufferfish, the blue-ringed octopus and sea snails.
Sadly, Paul the Octopus did not outlive his impressive but unpopular World Cup predictions by long.
It's at a time like this that Germans yearn most for Paul the Octopus, the great mollusk soothsayer for Germany.
The Oberhausen aquarium erected a memorial of the psychic octopus with a golden urn containing his ashes.
Octopus is one of those sleazy and boorish Americans whose instincts prove correct.
They are the Tarpon, the Falcon, the Sea Fox, and the Octopus.
Both Giddiness and the Ice-Maiden seize a man as an octopus seizes all within its reach.