Octopus

Today let's learn a new word, octopus! [Transcript: Hi and welcome to Let’s Word Up! Each day we post a word of the day to help you improve your English language skills. Today’s word of the day is octopus. Nouns are words that we use to name things. It can be a person, a place, a thing, an idea or concept. Therefore, octopus is a noun. An octopus is an ocean dwelling cephalopod mollusc with a soft body, strong beaklike jaws, no internal shell and eight sucker-bearing arms that are known as tentacles. This might be hard to imagine, so feel free to research octopus to find out more and see what they look like. An example of octopus used as a noun in a sentence would be: The octopus is a part of the cephalopod family that includes squid, cuttlefish and nautilus. Or, I read a story about an octopus that shot out a light using water because the light was disturbing its sleep. Thank you for listening, we hope that you found it helpful and interesting. Until next time.]