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octopodal

octopodal adjective: octopoid, octopuslike.

Adjective

octopodal (not comparable)

  1. Octopoid, octopuslike.
  2. Of, pertaining to, or resembling an octopod, a creature with eight feet or legs; eight-footed.
    • The Arachnides or octopodal articulate animals, whose head, which is destitute of antennae, is confounded with the […]1830, Pierre Augustin Beclard, translated by Robert Knox, Elements of General Anatomy: translated from the last edition of the French ... With notes and corrections, by Robert Knox, page 25
    • The metamorphoses of the parasite comprise three periods: larval, hexapodal, and octopodal.1882, The British Veterinary Journal, page 324

Examples of octopodal in a sentence

  • "He doesn't go out like that." Edwyrd answered the octopodal demon on his bed. […] As it got closer she realized it was a very large bird with eight legs!2014, J. L. Langland, Into The Abyss: Council of Wizardry, pages 356 and 359:
  • The eight-legged horse does not appear thereafter until the Gotlandic picture-stones, which may suggest any of several things: that the octopodal steed was not a .significant element […]2014, Stephan Grundy, Miscellaneous Studies Towards the Cult of Ódinn, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 15:

Synonyms of octopodal

Forms of octopodal

alternative formoctopedal

Origin of octopodal

From octopod + -al, after octopus.

Questions about octopodal

What does octopodal mean?
Octopodal means octopoid, octopuslike.
How do you use octopodal in a sentence?
"He doesn't go out like that." Edwyrd answered the octopodal demon on his bed. […] As it got closer she realized it was a very large bird with eight legs!
What part of speech is octopodal?
Octopodal is an adjective.

Words near octopodal in the dictionary

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

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