Crossword-Solution: OCTOPUS
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Octopus | n. | A genus of eight-armed cephalopods, including numerous species, some of them of large size. See Devilfish, |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| OCTOPUS | anagram | COPOUTS, COPSOUT, SCOOTUP |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TRAEE
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greedy person
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Sentences with OCTOPUS (5)
Once a leash of thin black whips, like the arms of an octopus, flashed across the sunset and was immediately withdrawn, and afterwards a thin rod rose up, joint by joint, bearing at its apex a circular disk that spun with a wobbling motion.
Not only is it supposed that these poulps can draw down vessels, but a certain Olaus Magnus speaks of an octopus a mile long that is more like an island than an animal.
See Acetabuliferous.] (Zo”l.) The division of Cephalopoda in which the arms are furnished with cupÐshaped suckers, as the cuttlefishes, squids, and octopus; the Dibranchiata.
THE OCTOPUS A Story of California by Frank Norris BOOK 1 CHAPTER I Just after passing Caraher's saloon, on the County Road that ran south from Bonneville, and that divided the Broderson ranch from that of Los Muertos, Presley was suddenly aware of the faint and prolonged blowing of a steam whistle that he knew must come from the railroad shops near the depot at Bonneville.
Just as we recognise Gilliat for the hero, we recognise, as implied by this indifferency of things, this direction of forces to some purpose outside our purposes, yet another character who may almost take rank as the villain of the novel, and the two face up to one another blow for blow, feint for feint, until, in the storm, they fight it epically out, and Gilliat remains the victor;—a victor, however, who has still to encounter the octopus.
Quotes with OCTOPUS (3)
I was satisfied with haiku until I met you, jar of octopus, cuckoo's cry, 5-7-5, but now I want a russian novel, a 50-page description of you sleeping, another 75 of what you think staring at your window.
Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.
Different sorts of survival machine appear very varied on the outside and in their internal organs. An octopus is nothing like a mouse, and both are quite different from an oak tree. Yet in their fundamental chemistry they are rather uniform, and, in particular, the replicators that they bear, the genes, are basically the same kind of molecule in all of us — from bacteria to elephants. We are all survival machines for the same kind of replicator — molecules called DNA — but t…
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Appears in: Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 45 times in crossword archives (1949–2024).