The Dutch word for octopus is
octopus
Translations for octopus and their definitions
| octopus | |
| 1. n. octopus |
| inktvis | |
| 1. n. The marine mollusk squid | |
| Inktvis is een misleidende naam: het is helemaal geen vis, zelfs geen gewerveld dier, en inktvissen produceren ook geen echte inkt, al wordt er wel pasta sepia gekleurd met het goedje | |
| Inktvis is a misleading name: it's not a fish at all, not even a vertebrate, and squids produce no actual ink either, although some pasta is colored sepia with the stuff |
| kraak | |
| 1. n. An instance or action of cracking, breaking | |
| 2. n. A robbery by breaking and entering | |
| 3. v. first-person singular present indicative of kraken | |
| 4. v. imperative of kraken | |
| 5. n. (navigation) A large, 16th/17th century, Iberian type of war - or commercial naval ship | |
| 6. n. (later) A smaller Dutch ship type | |
| 7. n. (zoology) kraken, giant octopus | |
| 8. n. sea monster | |
| 9. n. alternative form of krakenes | |
| 10. n. A gallery in a barn or church |
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