Octopusine

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Resembling or characteristic of an octopus. rare

    "The harbor was complicated enough for Craig Binky once to have called it “octopusine,” and Asbury might easily have bumbled into Jamaica Bay or tried to fight the tidal rush in the East River, were it not for the pilot he had taken on."

Synonyms

All synonyms
octopusicaloctopuslike

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"The harbor was complicated enough for Craig Binky once to have called it “octopusine,” and Asbury might easily have bumbled into Jamaica Bay or tried to fight the tidal rush in the East River, were it not for the pilot he had taken on."

Etymology

From octopus + -ine.

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