octopus
/ˈɑktəpəs/
noun
- A sea animal with a soft round body and eight long arms (tentacles) covered with suckers.
- The aquarium's new octopus can open jars to get its food.
- The octopus hid among the rocks at the bottom of the ocean.
- We watched an octopus change color to blend in with the coral reef.
- Something that has many parts or branches, especially an organization or system that has a wide influence.
- The company grew into a corporate octopus with offices in twenty countries.
- The new law aims to control the octopus of online misinformation.
- The spy network was an octopus of agents and informants across the region.