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Tentacle
Definitions
- 1 An elongated, boneless, flexible organ or limb of some animals, such as the octopus and squid.
"With one blow of the axe, Captain Nemo cut this formidable tentacle, that slid wriggling down the ladder."
- 2 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 wordnet
- 3 One of the glandular hairs on the leaves of certain insectivorous plants.
- 4 something that acts like a tentacle in its ability to grasp and hold wordnet
- 5 An insidious reach or influence. figuratively
"the tentacles of the criminal underworld"
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- 6 Something like a zoological limb. figuratively
"New extensions into the outer London dormitory areas also have been constructed, and at the present moment the tentacles of London's Underground are slowly but surely extending eastwards into Essex to relieve congestion on the suburban lines of the former Great Eastern Railway."
- 7 An officer employed to drive out to troops and transmit back requests for support via a special radio link. UK, historical
"A joint RAF/Army staffed Air Support Control (ASC) headquarters was established at each army corps and each armoured division, linked to the forward brigades by a 'tentacle' equipped with two-way wireless telegraphy."
- 1 to move like a tentacle
Etymology
From New Latin tentāculum, from tentō. Doublet of tentaculum.
From New Latin tentāculum, from tentō. Doublet of tentaculum.
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