https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=Dave13 2026-04-30T11:12:15Z User contributions MediaWiki 1.30.0 https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:928:_Mimic_Octopus&diff=40149 2013-06-10T01:05:50Z

<p>Dave13: </p> <hr /> <div>How does the mimic octopus manage to mimic multiple fish? Does it split it's own body up or something? '''[[User:Davidy22|&lt;span title=&quot;I want you.&quot;&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;purple&quot; size=&quot;2px&quot;&gt;David&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;green&quot; size=&quot;3px&quot;&gt;y&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;indigo&quot; size=&quot;1px&quot;&gt;22&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/span&gt;]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|&lt;tt&gt;[talk]&lt;/tt&gt;]] 13:30, 8 January 2013 (UTC)<br /> <br /> For the record, octopus is from the Greek ὀκτάπους, a compound of ὀκτά (eight) and πούς (foot); πούς is a third declension masculine noun, whose plural is πόδες. Therefore, the etymologically correct plural of octopus should be octopodes, not (as Orson Scott Card suggests) octopoda, since πούς is not a neuter.</div>

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