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Definition of Genus octopus
1. Noun. Type genus of the family Octopodidae.
Group relationships: Family Octopodidae, Octopodidae
Member holonyms: Devilfish, Octopus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Octopus
Literary usage of Genus octopus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1827)
"to those species, which, like the present, have only a single row of suckers on
each arm ; but this unnecessary subdivision of the well marked genus Octopus ..."
2. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1827)
"It possesses the characters of the genus Octopus of Lamarck, ... but this
unnecessary subdivision of the well marked genus Octopus is probably not justified ..."
3. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria by Royal Society of Victoria (Melbourne, Vic.), Royal Society of Victoria (1897)
"genus octopus, Lamarck, 1799. OCTOPUS SUPERCILIOSUS, Quoy et Gaimard. 1832.
Octopus superciliosus, Q. and G. Astrolabe, vol. ii., p. 88, pi. 6, f. 4. 1838. ..."
4. Proceedings by Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh (1883)
"... of the genus Octopus which have been figured, the one in question recalls that
of 0. vulgaris, as delineated by Troschel ;* but there the median tooth ..."
5. The Genera of Recent Mollusca: Arranged According to Their Organization by Henry Adams, Arthur Adams (1858)
"... Genus OCTOPUS, Cuvier. Arms with two rows of cups. Body round, without fins.
No aquiferous cells between the bases of the arms. ..."
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