Octopoidal vs Octopuslike - What's the difference?
octopoidal | octopuslike | Synonyms |
Resembling or characteristic of an octopus.
* {{quote-book, year=1961, author=Victor Appleton, title=Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung, chapter=, edition=
, 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
, 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
, 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. }}
Octopoidal is a synonym of octopuslike.
As adjectives the difference between octopoidal and octopuslike
is that octopoidal is octopoid while octopuslike is resembling or characteristic of an octopus.octopuslike
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