octopoid

Definition

Of, pertaining to, or resembling an octopus or octopod; octopuslike.

Etymology

From octopus + -oid.

Example Sentences

• "Moving about in experiment or sitting motionless in study were scores of the most hideous Martians they had yet seen—octopoid creature with enormous staring eyes and eight black tentacles."
• "It is also touchingly absurd; its plan even is delightful and absurd in its informality: the Inner Circle, geometrically perfect, half-embraced by the faintly octopoid arms of the lake - both contained lop-sided in the arbitrary perimeter of the ..."
• "Barrymore dramatised his own duality by means of a watercolour self-portrait, depicting the so-called 'Great Profile' fused with a hideous, octopoid spider. […]"