octopi

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UK/ˈɒktəpaɪ/UK/ˈɒktəpiː/US/ˈɑktəpaɪ/US/ˈɑktəpiː/

A form of octopus — Any of several marine molluscs of the order Octopoda, having no internal or external protective shell or bone (unlike the nautilus, squid and cuttlefish) and eight arms each covered with suckers.

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Meanings

noun
  1. hypercorrectnonstandardpluralplural of octopus

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    Cuddling is what an epidemic of lovers are doing all around us on this nippy, dazzling day. Entangled in each other like doting octopi, sweethearts are seizing the day, the hour, the magic minute.

    2009, Keith Spicer, Paris Passions: Watching the French Being Brilliant and Bizarre, BookSurge, →ISBN, page 43

    Synonyms: octopuses, octopodes

Synonyms & antonyms

Origin

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

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with octopi

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Cite this entry
APA

octopi. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/octopi

MLA

“octopi.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/octopi. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “octopi,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/octopi.

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