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