| 单词 |
octopian |
| 释义 |
ocˈtopian, a. [f. octopus + -ian.] Suggestive of an octopus; = octopean a. Also ocˈtopic [-ic], ˈoctopine [-ine1], adjs.
1914Chesterton Flying Inn 248 The Captain prepared to swing himself on to one of the octopine branches [of a tree]. 1922C. E. Montague Disenchantment i. 11 He had..struck..a crate, from which some octopian beast..had reached out at him. 1968Punch 6 Nov. 667/3 The sight of a Breton fisherman pulling the suckers off a live octopic leg. |
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