giant Pacific octopus

plural giant Pacific octopuses · nonstandard plural giant Pacific octopusses · nonstandard plural giant Pacific octopi · nonstandard plural giant Pacific octopii · plural rare giant Pacific octopodes

1. A large species of octopus, Enteroctopus dofleini.

   Giant Pacific octopuses are semelparous, meaning they reproduce only once.

   2018 April 29, Killian Fox, The Observer

   1 more example

   They range from less than an inch in length to the giant Pacific octopus, which weighs in at 100 pounds and spans twenty feet from arm tip to arm tip.

   2016, Peter Godfrey-Smith, Other Minds, William Collins, published 2018, page 47