ocˈtopian, a.
[f. octopus + -ian.]
Suggestive of an octopus; = octopean a. Also ocˈtopic [-ic], ˈoctopine [-ine1], adjs.
| 1914 Chesterton Flying Inn 248 The Captain prepared to swing himself on to one of the octopine branches [of a tree]. 1922 C. E. Montague Disenchantment i. 11 He had..struck..a crate, from which some octopian beast..had reached out at him. 1968 Punch 6 Nov. 667/3 The sight of a Breton fisherman pulling the suckers off a live octopic leg. |