English

Adjective

octopian ‎(comparative more octopian, superlative most octopian)

1. Of or pertaining to octopuses.
   • 2007, A. K. Otterness, Tales from Inside the Boerarrium, page 2:

     ...a vast octopian media-saturated vision of linked relays, chaos, volatility...

   • 2004, Erica Fudge, Renaissance Beasts, page 179:

     These slippages have characteristically drawn the attention of Derrida, who categorizes the many oddities involved in the category of human uniqueness and, for that matter, in the very words human and animal themselves. If an octopus divided the world into the octopian and everything else, would that make sense?

Synonyms

• octopean, octopic, octopuslike, octopine, octopoid