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blue-ringed octopii

blue-ringed octopii is the misconstructed plural of blue-ringed octopus.

Meaning of blue-ringed octopus

Noun

blue-ringed octopus (plural blue-ringed octopuses or (nonstandard) blue-ringed octopusses or (nonstandard) blue-ringed octopi or (nonstandard) blue-ringed octopii or (rare) blue-ringed octopodes or (rare, nonstandard) blue-ringed octopus)

  1. Any member of any species of the genus Hapalochlaena of octopuses, with distinctive blue rings, that carry the highly poisonous venom tetrodotoxin (TTX).
    • In terms of diversity, cephalopods include the egg case making argonauts, shelled nautiluses, venomous blue-ringed octopuses and enigmatic giants like the giant and colossal squid. […] The blue-ringed octopus Hapalochlaena lunulata has tetrodotoxin, the deadly toxin it also releases in a bite, in...2017 August 9, Mark Carnall, “Why do cephalopods produce ink? And what's ink made of, anyway?”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 15 Mar 2023

Questions about blue-ringed octopii

What is blue-ringed octopii the misconstructed plural of?
Blue-ringed octopii is the misconstructed plural of blue-ringed octopus.

Words near blue-ringed octopii in the dictionary

  1. blue-print
  2. blue-prints
  3. blue-red
  4. blue-ribbon
  5. blue-ringed octopi
  6. blue-ringed octopii
  7. blue-ringed octopodes
  8. blue-ringed octopus
  9. blue-ringed octopuses
  10. blue-ringed octopusses
  11. blue-rinse

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