For the baseball event nicknamed the Boston Massacre, see Yankees â Red Sox rivalry. The Boston Massacre, known as the Incident on King Street by the British, was an incident on March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers killed five male civilians and injured six others.
The males of this group have a modified third arm into a hectocotylus. Their hectocotylus is not detachable. This group includes all of the classic octopuses that even children can imagine, including the common octopus: Octopus vulgaris. Genus: Enteroctopus The members of this genus are known as âgiant octopuses.â
And from the Online Etymology Dictionary : octopus (n.). 1758, genus name of a type of eight-armed cephalopod mollusks, from Greek oktopous, literally eight-footed, from okto eight (see eight) + pous foot (see foot (n.)). Proper plural is octopodes, though octopuses probably works better in English.