Octopus is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for OCTOPUS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a nocturnal eight-armed mollusk
• a cephalopod mollusc with eight sucker-bearing arms, a soft sac-like body, strong beak-like jaws, and no internal shell.
• sea creature with a soft body and eight tentacles
• A genus of eight-armed cephalopods, including numerous species, some of them of large size. See Devilfish,
• tentacles of octopus prepared as food
• bottom-living cephalopod having a soft oval body with eight long tentacles
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a nocturnal octopod

Words related to OCTOPUS

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How to use OCTOPUS in a sentence

• Respectability has wound itself about society, a sort of octopus, and nowhere are you quite free from one of its horrible suckers.
• Railroads reached out like the tentacles of an octopus, where a generation before the buffalo had tramped its tortuous trail.
• A writhing mass of bare, sinewy arms rose from the water like tentacles of a human octopus to carry the Saint along.
• Chalk favouring them with a tale of a giant octopus, culled from Captain Bowers’s collection, which made Mrs.
• The greatest enemy the divers had to fear in those waters was the dreaded octopus, whose presence occasioned far greater panic than the appearance of a mere shark.
• It is most remarkable that the man was not altogether drowned, as he had been held under water by the tentacles of the octopus for rather more than two minutes.
• I am an octopus, and a viper, and a vampire, and a man-eating shark.
• He is the octopus of the hamlet, fastening on the cottage homes and sucking the life-blood from them.
• See that fat Tahitian thrust his finger into the sides of the octopus to plumb its cooking qualities.
• The octopus grows to immense size, with many long arms.
• Two Newfoundlanders were once fishing in an open boat, when an octopus attacked the boat, reaching for it with two enormous arms, with the purpose of dragging it down.
• The octopus sank and all the sea about was made black with its screen of ink.
• Shortly afterward a dead octopus was found, measuring, with tentacles spread, forty feet over all.
• It was not, however, the same octopus which attacked the fishermen, for that must have been much larger.
• For one of them had two faces, another three feet, and a third one had as many arms as an octopus.
• It was well that he did so for the object proved to be an octopus, or devil fish, edging its way nearly under the sloop toward the shore.
• At every blow, all the colors of the rainbow could be seen glowing through the body of the octopus.
• The unexpected offer was quickly accepted and sure enough, that night a magnificent spread was laid with the octopus served as the principal dish.
• It was like the head of an octopus joined to the body of a boa-constrictor, but head and neck were both of the same ghastly, livid grey as the other two creatures.
• Their defeat had been an incident to the thrust of a tiny feeling finger of the German octopus for information.
• It is more difficult to be great before the extended tentacles of the self-indulgence octopus than in the face of oppression and danger.
• Our bait was invariably flying-fish, freshly caught, or the tentacles of an octopus.
• Other forms appear like nebulous things resembling an octopus, whose twining tentacles twist around the person to whom they are directed.
• The octopus of speculative ugliness was growing to its full size, and threatened to smother us utterly.
• Hardly had I done this when, to my horror, I saw the arms of an octopus stretching towards me, its horid beak projecting from between its ugly eyes.

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