Adjective

(en adjective)

Of or pertaining to octopuses.

* {{quote-book, year=2007, author=A. K. Otterness, title=Tales from Inside the Boerarrium, volume=, chapter=, edition=, page=2, url=

, passage=...a vast octopian media-saturated vision of linked relays, chaos, volatility...}}

* {{quote-book, year=2004, author=Erica Fudge, title=Renaissance Beasts, volume=, chapter=, edition=, page=179, url=

, passage=These slippages have characteristically drawn the attention of Derrida, who categorizes the many oddities involved in the category of human uniqueness and, for that matter, in the very words human'' and ''animal themselves. If an octopus divided the world into the octopian and everything else, would that make sense?}}

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. }}