Definitions for: Tentacle

[n] 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
[n] something that acts like a tentacle in its ability to grasp; "caught in the tentacles of organized crime"

Webster (1913) Definition: Ten"ta*cle, n. [NL. tentaculum, from L. tentare to
handle, feel: cf. F. tentacule. See Tempt.] (Zo["o]l.)
A more or less elongated process or organ, simple or
branched, proceeding from the head or cephalic region of
invertebrate animals, being either an organ of sense,
prehension, or motion.

Tentacle sheath (Zo["o]l.), a sheathlike structure around
the base of the tentacles of many mollusks.

See Also: antenna, appendage, barbel, feeler, grasp, grip, outgrowth, process

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