Definitions
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- adjective Resembling or characteristic of an
octopus .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Screaming at teammates, bounding for the ball with octopuslike tentacles, manifesting what NBA terminologists rave is his "great length," Garnett stacked up career highs of 19 points and eight rebounds, carrying the Wolves to a near upset of the San Antonio Spurs.
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The missing appendages had given the animal a more octopuslike appearance, War told National Geographic News.
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A The floppy, octopuslike shape would bind nonspecifically to many objects.
The Edge of Evolution Michael J. Behe 2007
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A The floppy, octopuslike shape would bind nonspecifically to many objects.
The Edge of Evolution Michael J. Behe 2007
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A The floppy, octopuslike shape would bind nonspecifically to many objects.
The Edge of Evolution Michael J. Behe 2007
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A The floppy, octopuslike shape would bind nonspecifically to many objects.
The Edge of Evolution Michael J. Behe 2007
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The shape - octopuslike, starfishlike, machine - approached on thin, invisible jets.
Starfarers Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1998
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Riker, with that boundless energy that seemed to reach out octopuslike into every corner of the bridge.
FORTUNE’S LIGHT MICHAEL JAN FRIEDMAN 1991
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The only sound was the squishy-liver sound of the octopuslike creature that kept hopping back and forth.
Project Pope Simak, Clifford D., 1904-1988- 1981
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Other cones were there in groups around the dais, and to one side of it sat a small haystack that had eyes peering from the hay, while an octopuslike creature hopped back and forth before the bubble.
Project Pope Simak, Clifford D., 1904-1988- 1981
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