Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun octopus

2 senses of octopus

Sense 1
octopus -- (tentacles of octopus prepared as food)
       => seafood -- (edible fish (broadly including freshwater fish) or shellfish or roe etc)

Sense 2
octopus, devilfish -- (bottom-living cephalopod having a soft oval body with eight long tentacles)
       => octopod -- (a cephalopod with eight arms but lacking an internal shell)