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Octopod

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Any animal with eight feet or foot-like parts.
  2. 2
    a cephalopod with eight arms but lacking an internal shell wordnet
  3. 3
    Any cephalopod mollusks of the order Octopoda.
  4. 4
    A railway locomotive with eight wheels.

    "… Virginia saw the big octopod engine clamoring up the grade, …"

Etymology

From octo- + -pod, from Ancient Greek ὀκτώποδος (oktṓpodos), from ὀκτώπους (oktṓpous).

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