Tentacle

['tentək(ə)l] or ['tɛntəkl]

Definition

(noun.) any of various elongated tactile or prehensile flexible organs that occur on the head or near the mouth in many animals; used for feeling or grasping or locomotion.

(noun.) something that acts like a tentacle in its ability to grasp and hold; 'caught in the tentacles of organized crime'.

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Definition

(n.) A more or less elongated process or organ, simple or branched, proceeding from the head or cephalic region of invertebrate animals, being either an organ of sense, prehension, or motion.

Editor: Margie

Synonyms and Synonymous

n. Feeler.

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Definition

n. a thread-like organ of certain insects for feeling or motion.—adjs. Ten′tacled; Tentac′ūlar; Tentac′ūlate; Tentaculif′erous.—n. Tentac′ūlite a genus of annulated tapering shells found abundantly in Silurian and Devonian strata.

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