octopine

noun

Etymology

Octopus octopodia (the common octopus) + -ine (chemically basic or alkaloidal substance)

  1. derived from ὀκτώπους
  2. borrowed from octōpūs
  3. formed as octopine — “octopus + -ine

Definitions

  1. 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.

  2. 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