tentacle
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noun \ˈten-ti-kəl\Definition of TENTACLE
1
: any of various elongate flexible usually tactile or prehensile processes borne by animals and especially invertebrates chiefly on the head or about the mouth
2
a : something that resembles a tentacle especially in or as if in grasping or feeling out <corruption spreading its tentacles> b : a sensitive hair or emergence on a plant (as the sundew)
— ten·ta·cled \-kəld\ adjective
See Examples of TENTACLE
- The corporation's tentacles are felt in every sector of the industry.
- the tentacles of organized crime
Origin of TENTACLE
New Latin tentaculum, from Latin tentare to feel, touch — more at tempt
First Known Use: circa 1762
ten·ta·cle
noun \ˈtent-i-kəl\ (Medical Dictionary)Medical Definition of TENTACLE
: any of various elongate flexible usually tactile or prehensile processes borne by animals chiefly on the head or about the mouth; especially : one of the threadlike processes bearing nematocysts that hang down from the margin of the umbrella of many jellyfishes
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