Tentacle

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. An elongated flexible unsegmented extension, as one of those surrounding the mouth of a sea anemone, used for feeling, grasping, or locomotion.
  • noun. One of these structures in a cephalopod, typically being retractile and having a clublike end usually with suckers or hooks, in contrast to an arm, which is nonretractile and typically has suckers along the underside.
  • noun. One of the sensitive hairs on the leaves of certain insectivorous plants, such as a sundew.
  • noun. A similar part or extension, especially with respect to the ability to grasp or stretch.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. In zoology, some or any elongated and comparatively slender or flexible process or appendage of an animal, used as an organ of touch, or for exploration, prehension, and sometimes locomotion; a feeler; a tentaculum.
  • noun. In botany, a kind of sensitive hair or filament, such as the glandular hairs of Drosera.
  • noun. Figuratively, anything resembling a tentacle; a feeler.
  • noun. See the adjectives.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. a sheathlike structure around the base of the tentacles of many mollusks.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. An elongated, boneless, flexible organ or limb of some animals, such as the octopus and squid.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. something that acts like a tentacle in its ability to grasp and hold
  • 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