tentacle
tentacle
Definition
ten·ta·cle (ten′tə kəl)
noun
- any of a variety of long, slender, flexible growths, as about the head or mouth of some invertebrate animals, used variously for grasping, feeling, moving, etc.
- Bot. any of various sensitive hairs on the leaves of some plants, as those used in capturing insects
Etymology: ModL tentaculum < L tentare, to touch: see tent
Related Forms:
- tentacled ten′·ta·cled adjective
- tentacular ten·tac′u·lar (ten tak′yo̵̅o̅ lər) adjective
tentacle
Synonyms
tentacle
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- quiver: Up shot the game play pool yahoo glittering, quivering tentacle of Rosium, vibrating for a few moments like a thread of silver.
- extend: Shaped roughly like an octopus, the massif extends six tentacles or arms around 12 lakes.
- tip: When an insect lands on a sundew, its legs and wings get caught on the sticky tipped tentacles like flies on fly paper.
- have: The veritable Est Est Est chain has tentacles reaching out across the north west.
- get: Get out of the water as soon as you can and have someone help get any tentacles off your skin.
- see: I looked up, saw tentacles in front of my face.
Converse of subject
- surround: The mouth is surrounded by tentacles used for the intake of food.
Adjective modifier
- stinging: There were quite a thick bunch of stinging tentacles still attached, to a length of about 15 cm.
- long: Suddenly, the pulsing core shot long tentacles through the surrounding rock.
- short: Has characteristic deeply folded oral disk, with short tentacles.
- many: Its a funny looking fish, with many thin tentacles on its face.
- slimy: Then, flapping out of the doorway, six slimy green tentacles with snake heads emerged, hissing loudly.
- white: With translucent white tentacles, waving like wings in a breeze, they are a wonderful sight to greet the amateur microscopist.
Modifies a noun
- span: SIZE Never more than about l cm in height, with a 1.5 tentacle span.
Noun used with modifier
- fx: Page 6 1 [ View of Goryoumaru outside. ] fx tentacles crack crack 2 [ Closeup of Inuyasha noticing this. ] Inuyasha!
- squid: For the extension of a squid tentacle, our numerical results are in excellent agreement with existing experimental results.
- octopus: It has to be a Seafood Special with extra octopus tentacles.
Preposition: of
- anemone: Huge numbers of crinoids swarm across the gully bottoms, carefully avoiding the outstretched tentacles of the anemones.
- jellyfish: Although I only slightly came in contact with the tentacles of the jellyfish ( on my chest ), the sting was VERY painful.
- octopus: Moreover, he had dreams of the sort that cling to the emerging minds like the dim tentacles of an octopus.
Browse dictionary entries near tentacle
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