TENTACLE


Meaning of TENTACLE in English

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

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary.      Энциклопедический словарь английского языка Merriam Webster.