English-Portuguese translations for octopus
- polvoNa Mauritânia, as capturas de polvo diminuíram para metade nos últimos quatro anos. In Mauritania, catches of octopus have halved in the past four years. Refere, ainda, que as zonas de pesca de polvo e de pescada estão a ser sobreexploradas, e que é necessário reduzir o esforço de pesca. The report also notes that octopus and hake fisheries are over-exploited and reductions in effort are needed. Os principais tentáculos do "polvo" da máfia são o sistema de justiça e o sistema policial, que são corroídos pelo cancro da corrupção. The main tentacles of the mafia 'octopus' are the justice system and police, which are blighted by the cancer of corruption.
Definition of octopus
- Any of several marine molluscs of the family Octopodidae, having no internal or external protective shell or bone and eight arms each covered with suckers
- An organization that has many powerful branches controlled from the centre
- To put one's fingers, hands or arms in many things or places at roughly the same time
- To spread out in long arms or legs in many directions
- To plug a large number of devices into a single electric outlet
- To grow in use vastly beyond what was originally intended
- To hunt and catch octopuses
- To behave like an octopus
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