a sea creature with a soft round body and eight long arms, that is sometimes used for food
「Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary」
OALD によるとタコは8本の arms を持つ生き物。
タコの足は英語では arm になるんですね。
となると気になるのは相棒のこちら。
squid
a sea creature that has a long soft body, eight arms and two tentacles (= long thin parts like arms) around its mouth, and that is sometimes used for food
common name of any lepidopterous insect active in daylight, Old English buttorfleoge, evidently butter (n.) + fly (n.), but the name is of obscure signification. Perhaps based on the old notion that the insects (or, according to Grimm, witches disguised as butterflies) consume butter or milk that is left uncovered. Or, less creatively, simply because the pale yellow color of many species’ wings suggests the color of butter. Another theory connects it to the color of the insect’s excrement, based on Dutch cognate boterschijte…