English Explanatory Dictionary

octopi

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. plural of octopus

Word forms

octopi

Etymology

Formed on a common assumption that the -us of Latin octopus was a second-declension case ending.

Synonyms

octopuses octopodes
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