Something cold and slimy touched Nastya’s cheek, and she cringed, seeing it was a giant tentacle.
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Tentacle
//ˈtɛntəkəl//
Synonyms for "tentacle" (1 found)
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Closest matches (1)
Noun(1 words)
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Translations
73 translations across 51 languages.
Ancient Greek
2 entries- πλεκτάνη noun (elongated, boneless, flexible appendage)
- ὄστλιγξ noun (elongated, boneless, flexible appendage)
Arabic
2 entries- لامِس noun (elongated, boneless, flexible appendage)
- مِجَس noun (elongated, boneless, flexible appendage)
Armenian
1 entries- շոշափուկ noun (elongated, boneless, flexible appendage)
Belarusian
1 entries- шчу́пальца noun (elongated, boneless, flexible appendage)
Bulgarian
2 entries- жи́лка noun (glandular hairs on leaves)
- пипа́ло noun (elongated, boneless, flexible appendage)
Catalan
1 entries- tentacle noun (elongated, boneless, flexible appendage)
Cebuano
1 entries- gaway noun (elongated, boneless, flexible appendage)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 觸手 /触手 noun (elongated, boneless, flexible appendage)
Czech
1 entries- chapadlo noun (elongated, boneless, flexible appendage)
Danish
1 entries- fangarm noun (elongated, boneless, flexible appendage)
Dutch
1 entries- tentakel noun (elongated, boneless, flexible appendage)
Estonian
1 entries- kombits noun (elongated, boneless, flexible appendage)
Finnish
1 entries- lonkero noun (elongated, boneless, flexible appendage)
French
4 entries- pieuvre noun (insidious reach or influence)
- tentacule noun (elongated, boneless, flexible appendage)
- tentacule noun (glandular hairs on leaves)
- tentacule noun (insidious reach or influence)
Galician
1 entries- tentáculo noun (elongated, boneless, flexible appendage)
Georgian
1 entries- საცეცი noun (elongated, boneless, flexible appendage)
German
4 entries- Fangarm noun (elongated, boneless, flexible appendage)
- Fühler noun (insidious reach or influence)
- Tentakel noun (elongated, boneless, flexible appendage)
- Tentakel noun (glandular hairs on leaves)
Greek
1 entries- πλοκάμι noun (elongated, boneless, flexible appendage)
Hawaiian
1 entries- ʻawe noun (elongated, boneless, flexible appendage)
Hebrew
1 entries- זְרוֹעַ noun (elongated, boneless, flexible appendage)
Higaonon
1 entries- gaway noun (elongated, boneless, flexible appendage)
Hindi
1 entries- स्पर्शक noun (elongated, boneless, flexible appendage)
Hungarian
2 entries- csáp noun (elongated, boneless, flexible appendage)
- tapogató noun (elongated, boneless, flexible appendage)
Iranian Persian
1 entries- بازوچِه noun (elongated, boneless, flexible appendage)
Irish
1 entries- adharcán noun (elongated, boneless, flexible appendage)
Italian
1 entries- tentacolo noun (elongated, boneless, flexible appendage)
Japanese
1 entries- 触手 noun (elongated, boneless, flexible appendage)
Kazakh
1 entries- қармауыш noun (elongated, boneless, flexible appendage)
Korean
1 entries- 촉수 noun (elongated, boneless, flexible appendage)
Latvian
1 entries- tausteklis noun (elongated, boneless, flexible appendage)
Lithuanian
1 entries- čiuptuvas noun (elongated, boneless, flexible appendage)
Macedonian
1 entries- пипало noun (elongated, boneless, flexible appendage)
Maltese
2 entries- saba’ noun (elongated, boneless, flexible appendage)
- seba’ noun (elongated, boneless, flexible appendage)
Māori
4 entries- kawe noun (elongated, boneless, flexible appendage)
- kawekawe noun (elongated, boneless, flexible appendage)
- kāwai noun (elongated, boneless, flexible appendage)
- ngongotua noun (elongated, boneless, flexible appendage)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- tentakel noun (elongated, boneless, flexible appendage)
Occitan
1 entries- tentacul noun (elongated, boneless, flexible appendage)
Polish
2 entries- macka noun (elongated, boneless, flexible appendage)
- macka noun (insidious reach or influence)
Portuguese
1 entries- tentáculo noun (elongated, boneless, flexible appendage)
Romanian
1 entries- tentacul noun (elongated, boneless, flexible appendage)
Russian
1 entries- щу́пальце noun (elongated, boneless, flexible appendage)
Samoan
1 entries- ʻave noun (elongated, boneless, flexible appendage)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- pipaljka noun (elongated, boneless, flexible appendage)
- pípak noun (elongated, boneless, flexible appendage)
- пи́пак noun (elongated, boneless, flexible appendage)
- пипаљка noun (elongated, boneless, flexible appendage)
Slovak
1 entries- chápadlo noun (elongated, boneless, flexible appendage)
Slovene
1 entries- lovka noun (elongated, boneless, flexible appendage)
Spanish
1 entries- tentáculo noun (elongated, boneless, flexible appendage)
Swedish
1 entries- tentakel noun (elongated, boneless, flexible appendage)
Tagalog
1 entries- galamay noun (elongated, boneless, flexible appendage)
Tongan
1 entries- kave noun (elongated, boneless, flexible appendage)
Turkish
2 entries- dokunaç noun (elongated, boneless, flexible appendage)
- tentakül noun (elongated, boneless, flexible appendage)
Ukrainian
1 entries- щу́пальце noun (elongated, boneless, flexible appendage)
Vietnamese
1 entries- xúc tu noun (elongated, boneless, flexible appendage)
Sample sentences
16 total sentences available.
Mary drew a lot of tentacle porn.
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They say that tentacle porn is very popular in certain countries.
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It has a slight resemblance to an octopus's tentacle.
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