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Anonymous Wed 22 Jan 12:36:27 2020 No.11322250 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>11322253 >>11322499 >>11323306

Really just a breakfast question my son asked me, but: If octopuses have 8 tentacles, how come spiders, with eight legs are not ochnids, or ochders?

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Anonymous Wed 22 Jan 2020 12:37:47 No.11322253 Report

Quoted By: >>11322480

>>11322250
No clue why that turned into och.
Oc*

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Anonymous Wed 22 Jan 2020 14:54:47 No.11322480 Report

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>>11322253
it should be octonids, innit

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Anonymous Wed 22 Jan 2020 14:59:21 No.11322499 Report

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>>11322250
surely octopods?

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Anonymous Wed 22 Jan 2020 15:04:01 No.11322510 Report

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because the prigin of the word "arachnid" has nothing to do with the number eight

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Anonymous Wed 22 Jan 2020 21:03:49 No.11323306 Report

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>>11322250
Because biologists in taxonomy decided not to.

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