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Tentacle

Tentacle Meaning & Definition
Tentacle Definition And Meaning

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"

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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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