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octopod

/ˈɑktoʊpɑd/

octopod noun: any animal with eight feet or foot-like parts.

Noun

octopod (plural octopods)

  1. Any animal with eight feet or foot-like parts.
  2. Any cephalopod molluscs of the order Octopoda.
  3. A railway locomotive with eight wheels.
    • … Virginia saw the big octopod engine clamoring up the grade, …1905, Francis Lynde, “VII The Majesty of the Law”, in A Fool for Love, Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →LCCN, page 115

Adjective

octopod (not comparable)

  1. Having eight feet or foot-like parts.
    • The Arachnidans (Arachnida, Spiders, Scorpions, &c.), are octopod and apterous; […]1835–1836, Richard Owen, “Articulata”, in Robert B[entley] Todd, editor, The Cyclopædia of Anatomy and Physiology, volume I (A–Dea), London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, published...
    • [T]he females through five stages, indicated as follows:—1. The egg, on issuing from which the animal has the form of 2. A hexapod larva, followed by the stage of 3. Octopod nymphæ without sexual organs.1868 July, C. Robin, “On the Avicolar Sarcoptidæ, and on the Metamorphoses of the Acarina”, in Cardale C[ardale] Babington et al., editors, The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, […], volume II...
  2. Of or relating to the order Octopoda of cephalopod molluscs; octopoid.
    • The octopod genus Amphitretus has thus far been known only through a single specimen collected by the “Challenger” and described by [William Evans] Hoyle.1903, “Notes”, in The American Naturalist […], volume XXXVII, Boston, Mass.: Ginn & Company, […] The Athenæum Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 138
    • The composer, like his publisher, faces an octopod monopoly. If he expects his songs to be plugged by the new agencies of publicity he will have to join those agencies.1930, Isaac Goldberg, “Bye, Bye, Theme Song”, in Tin Pan Alley: A Chronicle of the American Popular Music Racket, New York, N.Y.: John Day Company, →OCLC, page 314
    Synonyms:
    octopodan

octopod meaning in Tamil and Kannada

octopod in Tamil

எண்காலி

octopod in Kannada

ಅಷ್ಟಪಾದಿ, ಆಕ್ಟಾಪೊಡಗಣಕ್ಕೆ ಸೇರಿದ, ಅಷ್ಟಪಾದಗಳನ್ನೊಳಗೊಂಡ ಯಾವುದೇ ಚಿಪ್ಪುಜೀವಿ

Synonyms of octopod

Forms of octopod

pluraloctopods
alternative uncommonoctopode
alternative formoctoped
alternative formoctopede

Origin of octopod

From octo- + -pod, after taxonomic name Octopoda. Piecewise doublet of octopede and octopus.

Words formed from octopod

Questions about octopod

What does octopod mean?
Octopod means any animal with eight feet or foot-like parts.
What is octopod in Tamil?
Octopod in Tamil is எண்காலி. See Octopod meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is octopod?
Octopod can be a noun or an adjective.
How do you pronounce octopod?
Octopod is pronounced /ˈɑktoʊpɑd/ (US).
What is the plural of octopod?
The plural of octopod is octopods.

Words near octopod in the dictionary

  1. octoploid
  2. octoploidization
  3. octoploidizations
  4. octoploids
  5. octoploidy
  6. octopod
  7. octopodal
  8. octopodan
  9. octopode
  10. octopodean
  11. octopodes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: octopod (page history and authors); octopod (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); octopod (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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