sharktopus

English

Etymology

Blend of shark +‎ octopus, from being a half-shark/half-cephalopod sea monster

Noun

sharktopus (plural sharktopuses or sharktopi)

  1. (US, fiction) Synonym of lusca; a shark-headed creature with tentacles; a Bahamian folkloric sea monster recast in U.S. pop culture pulp fiction
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