There are a lot of fun facts for kids about these octopuses that can help them learn a lot about this bizarre type of creature. Although the colors can be quite interesting for adults, they can also be very colorful for children.
#What is the plural of octopus skin#
From their skin to their bellies to their tails, they have a lot of different types of colors and patterns that you can see on them. Octopuses are one of the most colorful and odd characters around. Octopus blood is blue and they have nine brains, though the blood is not nearly as much as how much crab blood is worth. They have a systemic heart and two branchial hearts. The Giant Pacific Octopus weighs about 33 ponds. It is the hypothetical source of/evidence for its existence is provided by: Sanskrit pad-, accusative padam "foot " Avestan pad- Greek pos, Attic pous, genitive podos Latin pes, genitive pedis "foot " Lithuanian padas "sole," pėda "footstep " Old English fot, German Fuß, Gothic fotus "foot.There are about 300 species of octopus identified. It forms all or part of: antipodes apodal Arthropoda babouche biped brachiopod cap-a-pie centipede cephalopod cheliped chiropodist expedite expedition foot foosball fetch (v.) fetter fetlock gastropod hexapod impair impede impediment impeach impeccable isopod millipede octopus Oedipus ornithopod pajamas pawn (n.2) "lowly chess piece " peccadillo peccant peccavi pedal pedestrian pedicel pedicle pedicure pedigree pedology pedometer peduncle pejoration pejorative peon pessimism petiole pew Piedmont piepowder pilot pinniped pioneer platypus podiatry podium polyp pseudopod quadruped sesquipedalian stapes talipes tetrapod Theropoda trapezium trapezoid tripod trivet vamp (n.1) "upper part of a shoe or boot " velocipede. Eight hours as the ideal length of a fair working day is recorded by 1845. To be behind the eight ball "in trouble" (1932) is a metaphor from shooting pool. Figure (of) eight as the shape of a race course, etc., attested from c. The Spanish piece of eight (1690s) was so called because it was worth eight reals (see piece (n.)). Meaning "eight-man crew of a rowing boat" is from 1847. From the Latin word come Italian otto, Spanish ocho, Old French oit, Modern French huit.
1200), from Old English eahta, æhta, from Proto-Germanic *akhto (source also of Old Saxon ahto, Old Frisian ahta, Old Norse atta, Swedish åtta, Dutch acht, Old High German Ahto, German acht, Gothic ahtau), from PIE *okto(u) "eight" (source also of Sanskrit astau, Avestan ashta, Greek okto, Latin octo, Old Irish ocht-n, Breton eiz, Old Church Slavonic osmi, Lithuanian aštuoni). "1 more than seven, twice four the number which is one more than seven a symbol representing this number " late 14c., eighte, earlier ehte (c. Thompson writes that "the eggs look remarkably like ripe olives hence the story."
It also was thought to be amphibious and to climb trees near shores to steal grapes and olives (the giant ones were said to raid whole warehouses). To the ancients, the octopus was crafty and dangerous, thrifty (stores food in its nest), and proverbial of clever and adaptable men, based on the animal's instinct of changing color when frightened or for disguise. Used figuratively since at least 1882 of powers having far-reaching influence (usually as considered harmful and destructive).
But it probably is best to let such words follow the grammar of the language that uses them, and octopuses probably works best in English (unless one wishes also to sanction diplodoci for the dinosaurs). Like many modern scientific names of creatures, it was formed in Modern Latin from Greek elements, so it might be allowed to partake of Latin grammar in forming the plural. Octopi (1817) regards the -us in this word as the Latin noun ending that takes -i in plural. The classically correct Greek plural (had the word been used in this sense in ancient Greek) would be octopodes. The more usual Greek word seems to have been polypous (also pōlyps), from polys "many" + pous, but for this word Thompson suggests folk-etymology and a non-Hellenic origin. 1758, genus name of a type of eight-armed cephalopod mollusks, from Latinized form of Greek oktōpous, literally "eight-foot," from oktō "eight" (see eight) + pous "foot," from PIE root *ped- "foot."
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