transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈten-ti-kəl ]
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 -kəld adjective