giant Pacific octopus
English
Noun
giant Pacific octopus (plural giant Pacific octopuses)
- A large species of octopus, Enteroctopus dofleini.
- 2016, Peter Godfrey-Smith, Other Minds, William Collins 2018, p. 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, Killian Fox, The Observer, 29 April:
- Giant Pacific octopuses are semelparous, meaning they reproduce only once.
- 2016, Peter Godfrey-Smith, Other Minds, William Collins 2018, p. 47:
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