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Science Fair Project Dictionary
Octopus
English
Noun
octopus (plural octopuses or octopodes (octopi is incorrect); for discussion of the plural, see the Wikipedia article )
- A marine mollusc/mollusk having no internal or external protective shell or bone (unlike the nautilus , squid or cuttlefish) and eight tentacles each covered with suckers.
Related terms
Translations
- Albanian: tetëkëmbësh m, oktapod m
- Arabic: أخطبوط (akhtabūt)
- Basque: olagarro
- Bosnian: hobotnica f
- Bulgarian: октопод (oktopod)
- Catalan: pop m
- Cornish: kollell-lesa f
- Czech: chobotnice
- Dutch: octopus
- Esperanto: polpo
- Estonian: kaheksajalg
- Finnish: mustekala
- French: pieuvre f, poulpe m
- German: Tintenfisch , Krake
- Greek: οκταπους (oktapus), χταπόδι n(khtapodi)
- Hawaiian: he'e
- Hungarian: polip
- Indonesian: ikan gurita , ikan mangsi
- Interlingua: octopode
- Irish: ochtapas
- Italian: piovra f, polpo m
- Japanese: 蛸, 章魚 (たこ , tako)
- Korean: 낙지
- Lithuanian: aštuonkojis
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- Malay: ikan kurita , doyak
- Malayalam: നീരാളി (?)
- Mandarin: 章鱼 / 章魚 (pinyin:zhāngyú)
- Manx: oghtapus m, hoght-choshagh m
- Maori: wheke
- Norwegian: octopus
- Polish: ośmiornica
- Portuguese: polvo m
- Punjabi: ਤੰਦੂਆ (tãdūā)
- Russian: осьминог
- Serbian: hobotnica
- Slovak: chobotnica , polyp
- Slovene: hobotnica f
- Spanish: pulpo m
- Swahili: pweza , pweza mkubwa
- Swedish: bläckfisk
- Tagalog: pugita , oktopus
- Tok Pisin: urita
- Turkish: ahtapot
- Volapük: loktop
- Welsh: octopws , cymdeithas , nieidiol , wythgoes
- Zulu: imbambela , ingwane
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See also
- calimari
- Kraken
- nautilus
- Wikipedia article on the octopus
- squid
Dutch
Noun
octopus
- octopus
Norwegian
Noun
octopus
- octopus
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