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English

Etymology

From French tenir and Latin tendere.

Pronunciation

  • An audio transcript can be found at en-us-tentacle.ogg


Noun

  1. An elongated, boneless, flexible organ or limb of some animals, such as the octopus and squid.
  2. *1873, s:Author:Jules Verne|Jules Verne, 1
  3. *:With one blow of the axe, Captain Nemo cut this formidable tentacle, that slid wriggling down the ladder.
  4. *1897, s:Author:H._G._Wells|H. G. Wells, s:The_Crystal_Egg|The Crystal Egg
  5. *:The body was small, but fitted with two bunches of prehensile organs, like long tentacles, immediately under the mouth.
  6. *1936, s:Author:Howard_Phillips_Lovecraft|H. P. Lovecraft, s:The_Shadow_Out_of_Time/Chapter_4|The Shadow Out of Time
  7. *:Surmounting this head were four slender grey stalks bearing flower-like appendages, whilst from its nether side dangled eight greenish antennae or tentacles.


Translations

fr:tentacle io:tentacle id:tentacle fi:tentacle ta:tentacle vi:tentacle zh:tentacle

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Tentacle \Ten"ta*cle\, n. [NL. tentaculum, from L. tentare to
handle, feel: cf. F. tentacule. See Tempt.] (Zool.)
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.
[1913 Webster]

Tentacle sheath (Zool.), a sheathlike structure around the
base of the tentacles of many mollusks.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet tentacle
n 1: something that acts like a tentacle in its ability to grasp;
"caught in the tentacles of organized crime"
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
Jargon tentacle n. A covert pseudo, sense 1. An artificial identity created
in cyberspace for nefarious and deceptive purposes. The implication is
that a single person may have multiple tentacles. This term was
originally floated in some paranoid ravings on the cypherpunks list (see
cypherpunk), and adopted in a spirit of irony by other, saner members.
It has since shown up, used seriously, in the documentation for some
remailer software, and is now (1994) widely recognized on the net.


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