Octopodean

Quick meaning: Octopodean is an adjective meaning Resembling or pertaining to an octopus; octopuslike.

Meaning

Resembling or pertaining to an octopus; octopuslike.

Example Sentences

Even granting its octopodean ramifications, the entailments of Morgan's theory were so extensive that it could enable astonishing connections.

In the spaces which are thus left in a semi-countrified condition between these octopodean arms, there is much to be seen in a half-hour's ramble which may remind one of the country which is farther away from town.

What I find most intriguing is the octopus's ability to adapt to new and unusual circumstances—confinement in a lab—and turn the apparatus around them to their own octopodean purposes. A lot of early octopus work was done in Italy,[…]

[…] But this is to overlook the semiotician's octopodean ambitions. Implicit in Saussure's dream of a unified field of communication lay the totalizing possibility (substantially realized by Barthes and others) of claiming the whole world .

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