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Definition of Poulp
1. n. Same as Octopus.
Definition of Poulp
1. the octopus [n -S] - See also: octopus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Poulp
Literary usage of Poulp
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Magazine of Natural History edited by John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson (1840)
"ration we have made ; it evidently tends to restore this poulp to the normal
state of the other cephalopods, from which it has been so strangely separated ..."
2. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1840)
"Madame Power, wishing to discover whether the little poulp could, ... In the
direction of its axis she found in one a little new-born poulp rolled up near ..."
3. Orr's Circle of the Sciences: A Series of Treatises on the Principles of by Richard Owen, Robert Gordon Latham, Edward Smith, William Sweetland Dallas (1854)
"Among the few a- nimals of this description which are provided with proper eyes,
is poulp, ... poulp."
4. The English Cyclopaedia by Charles Knight (1867)
"On the 14th Madame Power found in one of the shells a little poulp 14 lines long.
... In the shell of that wherein she had first seen the little poulp she ..."
5. The Visitor, Or, Monthly Instructor by Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) (1840)
"The repaired parts of the shell reacted precisely like the ordinary shell with
nitric acid." Proceed. Zool. f!oc. Feb. 1839. Professor Owen. 3. " The poulp ..."
6. The Analyst: A Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature, Natural History by William Holl, Neville Wood, Edward Mammatt (1840)
"... adduces evidence in support of the following positions—that the ancient belief
respecting the skilful manoeuvres of the poulp of the argonaut in ..."
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