TENTACLE


Meaning of TENTACLE in English

n.

Pronunciation: ' ten-ti-k ə l

Function: noun

Etymology: New Latin tentaculum, from Latin tentare to feel, touch ― more at TEMPT

Date: circa 1762

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 tentacle s > b : a sensitive hair or emergence on a plant (as the sundew)

– ten · ta · cled \ -k ə ld \ adjective

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