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blanket octopuses

blanket octopuses is the plural of blanket octopus.

Meaning of blanket octopus

Noun

blanket octopus (plural blanket octopuses or (nonstandard) blanket octopusses or (nonstandard) blanket octopi or (nonstandard) blanket octopii or (rare) blanket octopodes or (rare, nonstandard) blanket octopus)

  1. Any of four species of pelagic octopus of the genus Tremoctopus, found in tropical and subtropical oceans.
    • One species, the Blanket octopus, has the most extreme divergence in size between the two sexes in a single species of any animal: females weigh 10,000 times as much as males.2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 229

Questions about blanket octopuses

What is blanket octopuses the plural of?
Blanket octopuses is the plural of blanket octopus.

Words near blanket octopuses in the dictionary

  1. blanket lien
  2. blanket liens
  3. blanket loan
  4. blanket loans
  5. blanket octopus
  6. blanket octopuses
  7. blanket order
  8. blanket orders
  9. blanket parties
  10. blanket party
  11. blanket sheet

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