About The Word Tentacle
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Tentacle
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What's The Definition Of Tentacle?
[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" Synonyms | Synonyms for Tentacle: Related Terms | Find terms related to Tentacle: See Also | antenna | appendage | barbel | feeler | grasp | grip | outgrowth | process Tentacle In Webster's Dictionary \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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