Meaning of TENTACLE
| Pronunciation: | | 'tentukul
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- [n] 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
- [n] something that acts like a tentacle in its ability to grasp; "caught in the tentacles of organized crime"
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| | See Also: | | antenna, appendage, barbel, feeler, grasp, grip, outgrowth, process | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Ten"ta*cle\, n. [NL. tentaculum, from L. tentare to
handle, feel: cf. F. tentacule. See {Tempt}.] (Zo["o]l.)
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.
{Tentacle sheath} (Zo["o]l.), a sheathlike structure around
the base of the tentacles of many mollusks.
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