tentacle
pronunciation
How to pronounce tentacle in British English:
UK [ˈtentəkl]
How to pronounce tentacle in American English:
US [ˈtentəkl]
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- Noun:
- something that acts like a tentacle in its ability to grasp
- 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
Word Origin
- tentacle (n.)
- 1762, from Modern Latin tentaculum, literally "feeler," from Latin tentare "to feel, try" + -culum, diminutive suffix (see -cule). Related: Tentacular.
Example
- 1. Each tentacle is about two millimeters long .
- 2. It looked like a big eyeball with a long tentacle thing .
- 3. Why are their lobbyists on capitol hill dismissing the only real solutions to climate change as " unworkable " and " unrealistic , " as though they were just another sooty tentacle of big coal ?
- 4. Also known as the sea wasp , this salad-bowl sized jellyfish can have up to 60 tentacles each 15 feet long . Each tentacle has 5000 stinging cells and enough toxin to kill 60 humans .
- 5. " No one yet knows whether paul will be able to follow in his footsteps , or rather , his tentacle steps , " aquarium spokeswoman tanja munzig said in a statement .