Definitions

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) An animal having eight feet, as a spider.

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  • noun zoology Any eight-legged creature.

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  • Through all this, the go-to man James O Sullivan-who, if this was all recorded in one take, is clearly some kind of octopede-offers up controlled feedback, prepared guitar and unidentifiable percussion to fill in the cracks.

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