Definitions for tentacle

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tentacle ten·ta·cle

Spelling: [ten-tuh-kuh l]

IPA: /ˈtɛn tə kəl/

Tentacle is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 198 anagrams from letters in tentacle (aceelntt).

Definitions for tentacle

noun

1. Zoology. any of various slender, flexible processes or appendages in animals, especially invertebrates, that serve as organs of touch, prehension, etc.; feeler.
2. Botany. a sensitive filament or process, as one of the glandular hairs of the sundew.

Origin of tentacle

1755-65; New Latin tentāculum, equivalent to Latin tentā(re) (variant of temptāre to feel, probe) + -culum -cule²

Examples for tentacle

At that moment a tentacle was writhing its way around his thick neck.

It was an octopus in a fathomless sea extending a tentacle to grasp him.

Soon as I flipped the lighter on, he shot up a tentacle and took it out of my hand.

Where was that spot to which the tentacle of the monster could not reach?

Not too shabby for a creature less than a year old who had never set a tentacle on the pitch.

There was not a twitch of a tentacle as we came to a halt beside it.

First one tentacle, then another, and finally one is pulled under and devoured.

He raised a tentacle to still Crownwall's immediate exclamation of protest.

The tentacle disappeared into the mass of the baffled hunter.

Then he baited his two hooks with bits of tentacle and threw them overboard.