octopine
nounEtymology
Definitions
An analog of lactic acid, derived from the amino acids arginine and alanine, first…
An analog of lactic acid, derived from the amino acids arginine and alanine, first isolated from the muscle tissue of octopus species.
Of, pertaining to, or resembling an octopus or octopuses
Of, pertaining to, or resembling an octopus or octopuses; octopuslike.
- ...but the Captain preferred to swing himself onto one of the octopine branches with a whirl of large wild legs worthy of a chimpanzee.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for octopine. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA