giant Pacific octopus en · NOUN
Meanings
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A large species of octopus, Enteroctopus dofleini.
Giant Pacific octopuses are semelparous, meaning they reproduce only once.
2018 April 29, Killian Fox, The Observer:They range from less than an inch in length to the giant Pacific octopus, which weighs in at 100 pounds and spans twenty feet from arm tip to arm tip.
2016, Peter Godfrey-Smith, Other Minds, William Collins, published 2018, page 47:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| giant Pacific octopusses | Number=Plur | nonstandard | lexicographic |
| giant Pacific octopi | Number=Plur | nonstandard | lexicographic |
| giant Pacific octopuses | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| giant Pacific octopus | Number=Plur | nonstandard, rare | lexicographic |
| giant Pacific octopodes | Number=Plur | rare | lexicographic |
| giant Pacific octopii | Number=Plur | nonstandard | lexicographic |
Translations (9)
vi bạch tuộc khổng lồ Thái Bình Dương (Translations) · de Pazifischer Riesenkrake (Translations) · ca pop gegant del Pacífic Nord (Translations) · fr pieuvre géante du Pacifique (Translations) · nl reuzenkraak (Translations) · tr Kuzey Pasifik dev ahtapotu (Translations) · cmn 北太平洋巨型章魚 /北太平洋巨型章鱼 (Translations) · ko 문어 (Translations) · pl ośmiornica olbrzymia (Translations)