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octopod

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7 lettersPart of speech nounSorted cdoooptStarts with OEnds with D0 clues
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Definitions

  1. a cephalopod with eight arms but lacking an internal shell

Word origin

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

Used in a sentence

  • … Virginia saw the big octopod engine clamoring up the grade, …
  • The Arachnidans (Arachnida, Spiders, Scorpions, &c.), are octopod and apterous; […]
  • [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.

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