octopus

mustekala Any of several marine molluscs/mollusks, of the family Octopodidae, having no internal or external protective shell or bone (unlike the nautilus, squid or cuttlefish) and eight arms each covered with suckers.
puhekieltä The flesh of these marine molluscs eaten as food.
An organization that has many powerful branches controlled from the centre.
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1825 — Willem de Haan, Monographiæ ammoniteorum et goniatiteorum specimen, page 10.

Jam vero testa in hac familia sola universalis pars est, Octopodis tantum exceptis.

: ''Now truly a shell is a part universal in this single family, octopus the notable exception.