"octopodal" meaning in English

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        "Octopoid, octopuslike."
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          "text": "The Arachnides or octopodal articulate animals, whose head, which is destitute of antennae, is confounded with the […]",
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          "ref": "1882, The British Veterinary Journal, page 324:",
          "text": "The metamorphoses of the parasite comprise three periods: larval, hexapodal, and octopodal.",
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          "ref": "1893, Wallace's Monthly, page 679:",
          "text": "Why they may conclude that the time-destroying, space swallowing Nancy was—as Jacob Grimm called Odin's no less famous horse, Sleipnir—an octopod! And the disputing savants will have as hot a time of it about Nancy, […] being an octopodal reminiscence of tbe Miocene horse, just as we are to-day discussing the probability or improbability of Sleipnir, […]",
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          "text": "Rupert looked down at himself. \"He doesn't go out like that.\" Edwyrd answered the octopodal demon on his bed. […] As it got closer she realized it was a very large bird with eight legs! \"Shit! that's no bird, that's the goddess-cursed demon friend of Tom's that tried to subvert Rupert.\"",
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          "text": "The eight-legged horse does not appear thereafter until the Gotlandic picture-stones, which may suggest any of several things: that the octopodal steed was not a .significant element […]",
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        "Of, pertaining to, or resembling an octopod, a creature with eight feet or legs; eight-footed."
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