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/tˈɛntəkəl/ Listen

Tentacle

noun

Something that acts like a tentacle in its ability to grasp and hold.

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.

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"Tentacle" Quotes from Famous Books

... new form. Where had been pillar and flailing arms was now a tripod thirty feet high, its legs alternate globe and cube and upon its apex a wide and spinning ring of sparkling spheres. Out from the middle of this ring stretched a tentacle—writhing, undulating like a serpent of steel, four score yards at ...

— The Metal Monster • A. Merritt

... was, had only six tentacles, three on each side. The lower ones were heavy and almost as thick as legs. The upper ones were small and were obviously used as hands, while it was possible that the middle ones could be used either way. A series of suction cups or sucking pads were at the end of each tentacle. With equipment like this, it could walk right up the side of a building, except, perhaps, for the ...

— Martians Never Die • Lucius Daniel

... solitary watcher in the pilot-house in a state of painful suspense that endured for fully ten minutes. At length, however, the professor and one of the others reappeared, each of them dragging at a long, limp tentacle; and in another moment the huge body of the octopus came into view with the remaining two men pushing it vigorously from behind. As it reached the edge of the ledge the professor and his companion stepped round to assist the other two, and presently the great unwieldy ...

— With Airship and Submarine - A Tale of Adventure • Harry Collingwood

Words linked to "Tentacle" : grip, barbel, appendage, tentacular, outgrowth, antenna, feeler, process, grasp