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octopusine

octopusine adjective: resembling or characteristic of an octopus.

Adjective

octopusine (comparative more octopusine, superlative most octopusine)

  1. (rare) Resembling or characteristic of an octopus.
    • 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.1983, Mark Helprin, Winter's Tale, page 335
    • Batu’s guitarist Chris Franck, after playing samba whilst studying for a degree in France, was tutored by two expatriate Brazilians, Pedro (guitar) and Beberto de Souza (octopusine percussion).1995, Colin Larkin, editors, The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music, page 312
    Synonyms:
    octopusical

Synonyms of octopusine

Forms of octopusine

comparativemore octopusine
superlativemost octopusine

Origin of octopusine

From octopus + -ine.

Questions about octopusine

What does octopusine mean?
Octopusine means resembling or characteristic of an octopus.
What part of speech is octopusine?
Octopusine is an adjective.

Words near octopusine in the dictionary

  1. octopushers
  2. octopusial
  3. octopusian
  4. octopusic
  5. octopusical
  6. octopusine
  7. octopusing
  8. octopusish
  9. octopuslike
  10. octopussed
  11. octopusses

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