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blanket octopus en · NOUN
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Any of four species of pelagic octopus of the genus Tremoctopus, found in tropical and subtropical oceans.
Blanket octopuses appear to be immune or resistant to Portugese^([sic]) man 'o' war stings and have even been observed wielding the stinging tentacles they’ve detached as a weapon.
2018 March 27, Mark Carnall, The Guardian:One species, the Blanket octopus, has the most extreme divergence in size between the two sexes in a single species of any animal: females weigh 10,000 times as much as males.
2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 229:
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