blanket octopus

English

blanket octopus (plural blanket octopuses)

Any of four species of pelagic octopus of the genus Tremoctopus, found in tropical and subtropical oceans.
- 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, 2013 edition, Granta Books, page 229:
  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.
- 2018, Mark Carnall, The Guardian, 27 March:
  Blanket octopuses appear to be immune or resistant to Portugese man 'o' war stings and have even been observed wielding the stinging tentacles they’ve detached as a weapon.

单词	blanket octopus
释义	blanket octopus English Noun blanket octopus (plural blanket octopuses) Any of four species of pelagic octopus of the genus Tremoctopus, found in tropical and subtropical oceans. 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, 2013 edition, Granta Books, page 229: 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. 2018, Mark Carnall, The Guardian, 27 March: Blanket octopuses appear to be immune or resistant to Portugese man 'o' war stings and have even been observed wielding the stinging tentacles they’ve detached as a weapon.
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