blanket octopus

English

Noun

blanket octopus (plural blanket octopuses)

1. Any of four species of pelagic octopus of the genus Tremoctopus, found in tropical and subtropical oceans.
   • 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 229:

     One species, the Blanket octopus, has the most extreme divergence in size between the two sexes in a single species of any animal: females weigh 10,000 times as much as males.

   • 2018 March 27, Mark Carnall, The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Blanket octopuses appear to be immune or resistant to Portugese^[sic] man 'o' war stings and have even been observed wielding the stinging tentacles they’ve detached as a weapon.