polypus
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of polypus
C16: via Latin from Greek: polyp
Example Sentences
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The polypus, the squid, and orphus, The tench, th' anchovy, and the cestres, And last of all the needle-fish.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
Eupolis, in his Demi, has— The man's a fellow-citizen of mine, A very polypus in disposition.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
Good sized polypus in season Should be boil'd,—to roast them's treason; But if early and not big, Roast them; boil'd ain't worth a fig.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
But eat, my friend, This cuttle-fish, and this small polypus.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
And Epicharmus, in his Hebe's Wedding, says— The polypus, likewise the cuttle-fish, And the swift-moving squid.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
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