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octopine en · NOUN · etymology 1

Octopus octopodia (the common octopus) + -ine (chemically basic or alkaloidal substance)

An analog of lactic acid, derived from the amino acids arginine and alanine, first isolated from the muscle tissue of octopus species.

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bg октопин (analog of lactic acid)

From octop(us) + -ine.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling an octopus or octopuses; octopuslike.
- ...but the Captain preferred to swing himself onto one of the octopine branches with a whirl of large wild legs worthy of a chimpanzee. 1914, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, The Flying Inn, page 266:

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