English

Adjective

octopuslike ‎(comparative more octopuslike, superlative most octopuslike)

1. Resembling or characteristic of an octopus.
   • 1961, Victor Appleton, Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung:

     The divers grappled each other in an octopuslike duel.

   • 2004 July 9, Fred Camper, “Living in a Dream World”, in Chicago Reader:

     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.

   • 2007 December 7, James Barron, “Bigger Cars, Flip-Up Seats, Poetry: How Riders Would Run a Subway”, in New York Times:

     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.

Synonyms

• octopean, octopian, octopic, octopine, octopoid, octopoidal