octopod
/ˈɑktoʊpɑd/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.19 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Any cephalopod molluscs of the order Octopoda.
noun
A railway locomotive with eight wheels.
Example Sentences
- "… Virginia saw the big octopod engine clamoring up the grade, …"
- "The Arachnidans (Arachnida, Spiders, Scorpions, &c.), are octopod and apterous; […]"
- "[T]he females through five stages, indicated as follows:—1. The egg, on issuing from which the animal has the form of 2. A hexapod larva, followed by the stage of 3. Octopod nymphæ without sexual organs."
- "A leathery expat told me, with an unexpected quaver in his voice, of the spider that traps birds merely in order to decorate its web with their feathers, a kind of octopod Jeffrey Dahmer."
- "The octopod genus Amphitretus has thus far been known only through a single specimen collected by the “Challenger” and described by [William Evans] Hoyle."
- "The composer, like his publisher, faces an octopod monopoly. If he expects his songs to be plugged by the new agencies of publicity he will have to join those agencies."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw Proto-Hellenic *oktṓ Ancient Greek ὀκτώ (oktṓ)bor. Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw Proto-Italic *oktō Latin octōbor. English octo- Proto-Indo-European *ped- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *pṓdsder. Ancient Greek πούς (poús) Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Hellenic *-os Ancient Greek -ος (-os) Ancient Greek ποδός (podós)bor. English -pod English octopod From octo- + -pod, after taxonomic name Octopoda. Piecewise doublet of octopede and octopus.
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈɑktoʊpɑd/