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octopus

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

八爪鱼,章鱼,八带鱼,八角鱼

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n.名词 noun
  1. 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.

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Examples

  • 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.

  • But hapless flight: the Boodah is an octopus whose feelers reach far, and they, within her toils, cannot escape her omnipresence.

  • From the deeper trawling were obtained a large octopus and several interesting fish.

  • These animals belong to the same division—the Cephalopoda—as the cuttle-fish, the squid, and the octopus.

  • A darker, livid hue passed fleetingly over the pallid body of the octopus.