octopod

noun

1. Any animal with eight feet or foot-like parts.
2. Any cephalopod molluscs of the order Octopoda.
3. A railway locomotive with eight wheels.

   “… Virginia saw the big octopod engine clamoring up the grade, …”

adj

1. (not-comparable)Having eight feet or foot-like parts.

   “The Arachnidans (Arachnida, Spiders, Scorpions, &c.), are octopod and apterous; […]”

   “[T]he females through five stages, indicated as follows:—1. The egg, on issuing from which the animal has the form of 2. A hexapod larva, followed by the stage of 3. Octopod nymphæ without sexual organs.”

   “A leathery expat told me, with an unexpected quaver in his voice, of the spider that traps birds merely in order to decorate its web with their feathers, a kind of octopod Jeffrey Dahmer.”

2. (not-comparable)Of or relating to the order Octopoda of cephalopod molluscs; octopoid.

   “The octopod genus Amphitretus has thus far been known only through a single specimen collected by the “Challenger” and described by [William Evans] Hoyle.”

   “The composer, like his publisher, faces an octopod monopoly. If he expects his songs to be plugged by the new agencies of publicity he will have to join those agencies.”

   “The three remaining coleoid orders, the Teuthoidea, the Vampyromorpha and the Octopodida include all the remaining living cephalopods, comprising 29 teuthoid or squid families, one vampyromorph family and 12 octopod families.”