Crossword clues for tentacle
tentacle
- Seaquarium arm
- Arm of the sea?
- Octopus's arm
- Feeler
- One may be suckered
- It might have many suckers
- Place for a sucker
- Cuttlefish feature
- Sucker holder
- 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
- Can't foul in the box, one might be feeling
- Octopus arm
- A nettle blown about caught arm
- Slender flexible limb
- Flexible feeling organ
- Octopus' arm
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tentacle \Ten"ta*cle\, n. [NL. tentaculum, from L. tentare to handle, feel: cf. F. tentacule. See Tempt.] (Zo["o]l.) 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.
Tentacle sheath (Zo["o]l.), a sheathlike structure around the base of the tentacles of many mollusks.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1762, from Modern Latin tentaculum, literally "feeler," from Latin tentare "to feel, try" + -culum, diminutive suffix. Related: Tentacular.
Wiktionary
n. An elongated, boneless, flexible organ or limb of some animals, such as the octopus and squid.
WordNet
n. something that acts like a tentacle in its ability to grasp; "caught in the tentacles of organized crime"
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
Wikipedia
In zoology, a tentacle is a flexible, mobile, elongated organ present in some species of animals, most of them invertebrates. In animal anatomy, tentacles usually occur in one or more pairs. Anatomically, the tentacles of animals work mainly like muscular hydrostats. Most forms of tentacles are used for grasping and feeding. Many are sensory organs, variously receptive to touch, vision, or to the smell or taste of particular foods or threats. Examples of such tentacles are the "eye stalks" of various kinds of snails. Some kinds of tentacles have both sensory and manipulatory functions.
The word tentillum literally means "little tentacle". However, irrespective of size, it usually refers to a side branch of a larger tentacle. In some cases such tentilla are specialised for particular functions; for example, in the Cnidaria tentilla usually bear cnidocytes, whereas in the Ctenophora they usually bear collocytes.
Tentacle is a studio album by the Japanese noise musician, Merzbow.
In zoology, a tentacle is a flexible, mobile, elongated organ present in some species of animals.
Tentacle or Tentacles may also refer to:
- Tentacle (botany), glandular hairs on the leaves of some species of insectivorous plants such as sundews
- Tentacles (film), an Italian-American horror film
- Tentacle (album), an album by Merzbow
- Squidward Tentacles, a fictional character in the American animated television series SpongeBob SquarePants
In botany, tentacles are glandular hairs on the leaves of some species of insectivorous plants such as Drosera (sundews). Tentacles are different from organs such as the tendrils of climbing plants.
In carnivorous plants such as sundews, the tentacles are the stalked glands of the upper surface of the leaves. They are hairlike projections with a drop of sticky mucilage which attract insects. Unlike a usual plant hair which is of epidermal origin, the tentacle is highly complex and includes all the tissue types present in the leaf. It consists of a tall, tapering stalk of multi-cellular structure, topped with two layers of glandular cells. They are highly touch-sensitive. When an insect or small animal is captured, the tentacles bend inward and the leaf rolls together as shown in the picture. The glandular cells then secrete enzymes to dissolve and digest the insect.
Usage examples of "tentacle".
What the crushingly powerful four-limbed hug would have done to a human unprotected by a suit designed to withstand pressures comparable to those found at the bottom of an ocean probably did not bear thinking about, but then a human exposed without protection to the conditions required to support Affronter life would be dying in at least three excitingly different and painful ways anyway without having to worry about being crushed by a cage of leg-thick tentacles.
No distinct line of demarcation can be drawn between the pedicels of the long terminal tentacles and the much attenuated summits of the leaves.
The Tentacle Islands uprising will come to the same end as the Balzan Rebellion.
A tentacle extruded to take them, hesitated, then turned into a dainty little white hand complete with pink-painted fingernails to remove the box from his palm.
If the tentacles of a young, yet fully matured leaf, that has never been excited or become inflected, be examined, the cells forming the pedicels are seen to be filled with homogeneous, purple fluid.
Shortly after the tentacles have reexpanded, the little masses of protoplasm are all redissolved, and the purple fluid within the cells becomes as homogeneous and transparent as it was at first.
A leaf, with the cells of the tentacles containing only homogeneous fluid, was waved about for 1 m.
Roridula, perhaps, shows us how we may reconcile these difficulties with respect to the homological nature of the tentacles.
Instead of handles or straps, however, they sported a profusion of black tentacles, dozens and dozens of tentacles, every second or third one of which ended in a moist turquoise eye shielded by a pair of the sweepingest eyelashes Manship had ever seen outside of a mascara advertisement.
The creature touched it with a tentacle and a tiny electrical impulse, perhaps measured in milliamperes, passed into the strand.
I dipped to a vol-pique, but again a tentacle fell over the monoplane and was shorn off by the propeller as easily as it might have cut through a smoke wreath.
The bot stepped into the crate, root tendrils unfurling from her calves and palping the surface of the soil like so many slender tentacles.
Careful not to move nearer, not an inch nearer, Pander offered it at full tentacle length.
And Pander dutifully waved back, always using his signal-tentacle because it had not occurred to him that any tentacle would serve.
And they come, pouring through the hatch, the Spicans first, then all the rest, the infinite multitude of beings, the travelers from Formalhaut and Achernar and Acrux and Aldebaran, from Thuban and Arcturua and Altair, from Polaris and Canopus and Sirius and Rigel, hundreds of star-creatures spilling happily out of the vessel, bursting forth, all of them, even Pitkin, poor little Pitkin, everyone joining hands and tentacles and tendrils and whatever, forming a great ring of light across space, everyone locked in a cosmic harmony, everyone dancing.