octopodial
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octopodial (not comparable)
- (rare) Synonym of octopodal, octopuslike.
- 2000, Robert Wilson, A Small Death in Lisbon, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN:
- I drove into Lisbon wrestling with my octopodial conscience. Should I really be taking a possible witness out to lunch when I didn't know her level of importance to the case? It was an ugly argument. That word possible became very important, ...
- 2001, The News, volume 16, published by the Independent Communications Network Limited of Nigeria:
- But worse still, Alhaji Arzika equally was adjudged to be frustrating the speedy privatisation of the octopodial state-owned NITEL.
- 2004, Robert Wilson, A Darkening Stain, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN:
- Marnier's torch found them. A few feet from the back of the car Felix and Gio were on their feet locked together in an impossible octopodial embrace.
- 2005, Journal of Media Studies:
- This media reception gave it the octopodial status so described and many Nigerians nose-dived into the market, colliding one another, as they struggle to buy "the handset," as it is popularly called.