Adjective

(en adjective)

Of or pertaining to octopuses.

* {{quote-book, year=1903, author=W.C. Chewett & Company, title=The Canada Law Journal, volume=39, chapter=, edition=, page=93, url=

, passage=It is understood that several worthy members of the Bar feel sufficiently octopean to undertake all the duties and succeed to all the income of the late judge, but we doubt if this is in the public interest.}}

Adjective

(en adjective)

Resembling or characteristic of an octopus.

* {{quote-book, year=1961, author=Victor Appleton, title=Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=The divers grappled each other in an octopuslike duel. }}

* {{quote-news, year=2004, date=July 9, author=Fred Camper, title=Living in a Dream World, work=Chicago Reader citation

, passage=A white octopuslike beast is described as something that escapes when the ice thaws to collect "escaped spirits until the next frost"; a hulking presence in the painting, it's rendered even more alarming by the diagram, in which it looms over the silhouetted man. }}

* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=December 7, author=James Barron, title=Bigger Cars, Flip-Up Seats, Poetry: How Riders Would Run a Subway, work=New York Times citation

, passage=The agency announced plans yesterday to subdivide the octopuslike system and make the manager of each line responsible for everything on that line, from bunched-together trains to unintelligible public-address announcements. }}