blanket octopus

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blanket octopus

noun blanket octopuses · blanket octopusses · blanket octopi · blanket octopii · blanket octopodes · blanket octopus

Any of four species of pelagic octopus of the genus Tremoctopus, found in tropical and subtropical oceans. One species, the Blanket octopus, has the most extreme divergence in size between the two sexes in a single species of any animal: females weigh 10,000 times as much as males.

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@misc{blanket_octopus_2026,
  title = {blanket octopus},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/blanket%20octopus},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}