giant Pacific octopus

English

Noun

giant Pacific octopus (plural giant Pacific octopuses)

  1. A large species of octopus, Enteroctopus dofleini.
    • 2016, Peter Godfrey-Smith, Other Minds, William Collins, published 2018, page 47:
      They range from less than an inch in length to the giant Pacific octopus, which weighs in at 100 pounds and spans twenty feet from arm tip to arm tip.
    • 2018 April 29, Killian Fox, The Observer‎:
      Giant Pacific octopuses are semelparous, meaning they reproduce only once.
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