giant Pacific octopus

giant Pacific octopus (plural giant Pacific octopuses or (nonstandard) giant Pacific octopusses or (nonstandard) giant Pacific octopi or (nonstandard) giant Pacific octopii or (rare) giant Pacific octopodes or (rare, nonstandard) giant Pacific octopus)

1. A large species of octopus, Enteroctopus dofleini.
   • 2016, Peter Godfrey-Smith, Other Minds, William Collins, published 2018, page 47:

     They range from less than an inch in length to the giant Pacific octopus, which weighs in at 100 pounds and spans twenty feet from arm tip to arm tip.

   • 2018 April 29, Killian Fox, The Observer‎^[1]:

     Giant Pacific octopuses are semelparous, meaning they reproduce only once.