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Tentacle   /tˈɛntəkəl/   Listen
Tentacle

noun
1.
Something that acts like a tentacle in its ability to grasp and hold.
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.





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"Tentacle" Quotes from Famous Books



... began to pass through that series of suburbs which the city has flung like a single tentacle northward for a hundred miles along the eastern banks of ...
— The Dark Star • Robert W. Chambers
... to the rock above the crevice and was standing still as the night about me for the moment when a grip like steel suddenly closed on my neck and an arm like the tentacle of a devilfish slid round my waist. Then the swift adroitness of knee and shoulder bent me backward almost off my feet. I gave a great wrench, and with a power equal to my assailant, struggled with him. It ...
— The Price of the Prairie - A Story of Kansas • Margaret Hill McCarter


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


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