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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024ten•ta•cled (ten′tə kəld),USA pronunciation adj. - Botany, Zoologyhaving tentacles.
Also, ten•tac•u•lat•ed (ten tak′yə lā′tid).USA pronunciation WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024ten•ta•cle /ˈtɛntəkəl/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- Zoologya slender, easily bent part like a limb on certain animals that serves as an organ to grab or feel things;
a feeler.
ten•ta•cled, adj. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024ten•ta•cle (ten′tə kəl),USA pronunciation n. - Zoologyany of various slender, flexible processes or appendages in animals, esp. invertebrates, that serve as organs of touch, prehension, etc.; feeler.
- Botanya sensitive filament or process, as one of the glandular hairs of the sundew.
- Neo-Latin tentāculum, equivalent. to Latin tentā(re) (variant of temptāre to feel, probe) + -culum -cule2
- 1755–65
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