Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

blue-ringed octopus

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.80 in modern English

Syllables: blue-ringed oc-to-pus
IPA

25

Scrabble Score

17

Letters

4

Syllables

14

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any member of any species of the genus Hapalochlaena of octopuses, with distinctive blue rings, that carry the highly poisonous venom tetrodotoxin (TTX).

Example Sentences

"In terms of diversity, cephalopods include the egg case making argonauts, shelled nautiluses, venomous blue-ringed octopuses and enigmatic giants like the giant and colossal squid. […] The blue-ringed octopus Hapalochlaena lunulata has tetrodotoxin, the deadly toxin it also releases in a bite, in their ink but the concentrations and effect in inking are not known."

Etymology

From blue + ringed + octopus. From being an octopus with very prominent bright blue rings all over its body.

Inflected Forms

blue-ringed octopuses (plural) blue-ringed octopusses (nonstandard, plural) blue-ringed octopi (nonstandard, plural) blue-ringed octopii (nonstandard, plural) blue-ringed octopodes (plural, rare)

Questions

What does blue-ringed octopus mean?: Any member of any species of the genus Hapalochlaena of octopuses, with distinctive blue rings, that carry the highly poisonous venom tetrodotoxin (TTX).
Where does blue-ringed octopus come from?: From blue + ringed + octopus. From being an octopus with very prominent bright blue rings all over its body.

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