tentacle

Examples

• All

• Its large head was square, and its tentacles seemed to stretch endlessly into the water.

  Academic text (2011)

• The larger the prey, the longer the tentacles become; the greater the struggle, the tighter the grip.

  Academic text (2002)

• Is this a bit of squid tentacle?

  The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! (2012)

• "Hello," it said in a warm female voice, extending a tentacle to take Kiri's hand.

  Fiction book (1991)

• It looks like an octopus tentacle or something.

  The Watch (2012)

• The two creatures meet at the corner, their tentacles touching rather like ants' antennae.

  Fiction book (1990)

• It can search for prey with two tentacles without even surfacing.

  Eye of the Beast (2007)

• Instead, they have only eight threadlike tentacles about one-eighth of an inch long.

  Academic text (1991)

• When he reached out to her, one of the jellyfish's tentacles brushed his leg, searing him.

  Academic text (2011)

• The octopus used its tentacle to grasp the shell and pull it closer.

Synonyms

L

limb

vstentacle

210 1.0

An arm, leg, wing, or flipper that an animal uses to move and hold things

is mainly unjointed and flexible and extends from the head for touching

A

appendage

vstentacle

26 6.2

A part attached to something larger, like a limb on an animal or a small group added to an organization

is a long flexible organ near the mouth used for touching and grasping

How Sensitive

whisker

37 1.9

feeler

3 5.3

tentacle

42 4.9

bristle

15 3.5

Surface Forms

Etymology