octopodaladj.

1894 Musical Million (Dayton, Va.) Jan. 8/2 We have the double-backboned craw-fish, which crawls alike forward, backward and sideways, and shows by his actions that with him, at least, it is, Good Lord,..if I can only lay my octopodal extremities upon thee and feast myself.

1963 Guardian 29 June 5/6 We are merely substituting a new noble savagery for the dearly octopodal romanticism of pre-1956.

1985 D. Koontz Door to December iv. xxxv. 444 Beverly Hills gave way to the enfolding, octopodal city of Los Angeles.

1993 A. Chaudhuri Afternoon Raag xxvii. 129 His room used to blaze with pictures of gods and goddesses... With their octopodal limbs, Kali's face faintly reminiscent of Hema Malini's, they were such good companions of the common man at home.