giant Pacific octopus

English

Noun

giant Pacific octopus (plural giant Pacific octopuses)

1. A large species of octopus, Enteroctopus dofleini.
   • 2016, Peter Godfrey-Smith, Other Minds, William Collins, published 2018, page 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 April 29, Killian Fox, The Observer‎^[1]:

     Giant Pacific octopuses are semelparous, meaning they reproduce only once.

Translations

Translations

• Catalan: pop gegant del Pacífic Nord m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 北太平洋巨型章魚／北太平洋巨型章鱼 (Běi Tàipíngyáng jùxíngzhāngyú)

• French: pieuvre géante du Pacifique (fr) f
• German: Pazifischer Riesenkrake m
• Korean: 문어(文魚) (ko) (muneo)
• Polish: ośmiornica olbrzymia f
• Turkish: Kuzey Pasifik dev ahtapotu
• Vietnamese: bạch tuộc khổng lồ Thái Bình Dương