DarrinBrunner comments on 🐙 Octopus is Octopus 🐙

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[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago (1 child)

It should just refer to the number of tentacles. So, for two of them, it would be sēdecimpus

[–] scutiger@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

Octopuses have limbs known as "arms."

Tentacles are a different thing, like the two that squid have (the rest are also arms.)

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