Antonyms for octopus
ˈɒk tə pəs; -ˌpaɪoc·to·pus

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1. • Octopod
   • Seafood

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1. octopusnoun

   tentacles of octopus prepared as food

   Synonyms:
   devilfish

2. octopus, devilfishnoun

   bottom-living cephalopod having a soft oval body with eight long tentacles

   Synonyms:
   grey whale, manta ray, devilfish, gray whale, manta

How to use octopus in a sentence?

1. Robert Full:

   You might think the best shape changers are kind of like an octopus or a worm or a slug but yet we know that cockroaches can go through these tiny little cracks.

2. Dodie Smith:

   The family-that dear octopus from whese tentacles we never quite escape nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.

3. Alex Wagner:

   The streams percolate out of the Milky Way's dense gas disk, the jet diverges from a pencil beam into tendrils, like that of an octopus.

4. Chris Murphy:

   I am convinced that the Russians are prepared to do anything and everything in order to get this president reelected, and knowing that Chris Murphy is going to be sidelined from at least normal campaigning over the next two weeks, it may mean that that's massive multi-layered octopus-like Russian interference operation is going to ramp up, and I think we all need to be cognizant of that and we all need to be taking steps to try to make the American people understand what is real information from that being proffered by countries like Russia.

5. Luigi Barzini:

   They eat the dainty food of gamous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes, or fisherman's octopus and shrimps, fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach.

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