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Noun: tentacle  ten-ti-kul
  1. 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
     
  2. Something that acts like a tentacle in its ability to grasp and hold
    "caught in the tentacles of organized crime"

Derived forms: tentacles

Type of: appendage, grasp, grip, outgrowth, process

Encyclopedia: Tentacle

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