Definition of tentacle in English:

tentacle

noun ˈtɛntək(ə)lˈtɛn(t)ək(ə)l

1A slender, flexible limb or appendage in an animal, especially around the mouth of an invertebrate, used for grasping or moving about, or bearing sense organs.
触角，触手，触须，触器
Example sentencesExamples
- The bud develops its own mouth and set of feeding tentacles but shares a gut, and hence its food, with its parent.
- The feature shared by this group is the lophophore, an unusual feeding appendage bearing hollow tentacles.
- These feet are long, thin, flexible tentacles ending in tiny suction cups.
- The tentacles around the mouth are disposed in concentric circles, usually forming a series of radial lines rather than being alternately arranged.
- A male blanket octopus fills a modified tentacle with sperm, tears it off, presents it to its prospective mates, and then drifts off to certain death.
- It has powerful arms and tentacles, excellent underwater vision, and a razor-sharp beak that easily tears through the flesh of its prey.
- Something in the water had wrapped its arms or tentacles around his legs and was dragging him down despite his efforts.
- In a group round the mouth were sixteen slender, almost whiplike tentacles, arranged in two bunches of eight each.
- It is believed that they captured prey with their retractable tentacles and passed it to their mouth where a beak-like jaw tore it into pieces.
- The tentacles contain harpoon-like stinging capsules called nematocysts that the anemones employ to capture prey and ward off predators.
- The squid's tentacles are armed with suckers, each ringed with tiny teeth to help snare prey.
- The head projects into a crown of prehensile tentacles - ranging from 8 in the octopus to 80 or 90 in the living nautilus.
- Though fairly simple animals, the tentacles of sea anemones are covered with intricate stinging cells used both for defence and for capturing prey.
- At one end of the animal is a mouth surrounded by tentacles.
- If we approach carefully, the beautiful patterning on the soft tissues, the slender tentacles and iridescent eye spots can all be observed.
- Beneath their tentacles is a mouth full of teeth the size of fingers.
- The tip of the snout is expanded into a naked pink disc which supports 22 finger-like tentacles or feelers which give this creature its name.
- Another tentacle wrapped around her mouth, and her breathing stopped.
- Older males in particular also have tentacles on the first few spines of their dorsal fins.
- These anemone eat small crustaceans, plankton and various tidepool animals that venture into the range of their stinging tentacles.
Synonyms
antenna, horn
1. 1.1 (in a plant) a tendril or a sensitive glandular hair.
  （植物的）触毛
  Example sentencesExamples
  It was partially obscured by the wilted tentacles of a suspended epiphyte.
  Nearby spread the prehistoric-looking tentacles of Welwitschia plants that date from the age of the dinosaurs.
  The mychorrhizal fungi live on the roots and physically extend the plant's reach for nutrients and water with hairlike tentacles called hyphae.
  Ivy is a particular problem: it can look very attractive, but its tentacles will reach into every crack and damage tiles and brickwork.
  Under certain conditions the spores grow extravagantly, infiltrating the tree with multitudes of thread-thin tentacles.
2. 1.2 Something resembling a tentacle in shape or flexibility.
  似触手的东西
  trailing tentacles of vapour
  袅袅腾腾的烟雾。
3. 1.3usually tentacles An insidious spread of influence and control.
  〈喻〉影响力；束缚；约束
  the Party's tentacles reached into every nook and cranny of people's lives
  党的影响力已经渗透到了人们生活的方方面面。
  Example sentencesExamples
  In China, 17 percent of the population has yet to hear of AIDS, even as the disease spreads its tentacles there.
  Over the years, gentrification spread its tentacles north of the river and then the moon villages became a prime real estate target.
  Cultural capital, based in most cases on financial capital and class privilege, spreads its tentacles both on the Left and the Right.
  We are not suggesting that this kind of incident is commonplace in this area as yet, but with crime spreading its tentacles wide out from the capital city, we are all now in danger from this kind of incident.
  The tentacles of this organization reach across the nation.
  The anticapitalist movement has spread its tentacles into the Middle East through the antiwar movement.
  The music festival that spreads its diverse tentacles from Aberdeen south to Glasgow and Edinburgh is now in its sixth year.
  Its transnational tentacles reach into every corner of the globe.
  The mystery this film sets up is how far have the tentacles and influence of the rebellion infiltrated the town?
  But elsewhere in the world terrorism has spread its tentacles, leaving heavy tolls in its wake.
  And they're the most obvious sign of the West's relentless tentacles reaching into Angola today.
  The bank grew three fold in its network in the '70s and spread its tentacles in seven other states.
  They are giant multinational corporations, with their tentacles spread across the globe.
  But as capitalism spreads its tentacles across the globe this trend is changing.
  Winner takes it all mentality has successfully spread its tentacles deep into our societal fabric and has infiltrated our institutions.
  The trade's tentacles continue to reach far and wide.
  The drought has spread its tentacles deep inside the jungle.
  Corruption has long tentacles that endeavours to reach far.
  A gang who spread the tentacles of their evil drug-dealing ring to York have been warned they face substantial prison sentences.
  He soon came back to Wales, to the big War that had started and was spreading its tentacles around the whole of Europe.

Derivatives

tentacled

adjectiveˈtɛntək(ə)ldˈtɛn(t)ək(ə)ld

Too often, these series are overblown and melodramatic, populated by gigantic, tentacled demons and screeching, white-haired ghosts, telling the same formulaic stories over and over again.
Example sentencesExamples
- Nationally-protected tentacled lagoon worms were discovered at the site of the £124m Channel Tunnel Rail Link bridge works over the River Medway.
- We knew that this monster is hydra-headed, many tentacled.
- The Orson Welles broadcast of a four-decade-old H.G. Wells novel was so convincing that horrified listeners peered skyward for glimpses of tentacled invaders arriving in their war machines.
- The common space between offices is dominated by a series of sculptures, such as a cross between an acorn and a human head and a freestanding metallic, tentacled thing strewn across the floor.

tentacular

adjective tɛnˈtakjʊlətɛnˈtækjələr

French journalists and media workers often think of media conglomerates as tentacular creatures: Hachette (publishing, print media distribution, etc.) was long called ‘the octopus’.
Example sentencesExamples
- The response consists of tentacular writhing and mouth opening and is similar to the feeding response seen in A. pallida.
- The grands corps were the powerhouses of the state, and established a tentacular grasp on other key institutions.
- The lophophore, a ciliated, tentacular organ for feeding, of varying three-dimensional morphology, is suspended between the mantles.
- Davidson emphasized the Port Authority's openness to criticism by showing how the plan incorporates the original terminal's tentacular tubes, omitted from a first scheme.

tentaculate

adjective tɛnˈtakjʊlət

But look carefully and you will see the tentaculate zooids that confirm their animal nature.
Example sentencesExamples
- Two tentaculate surface deposit feeders, Streblospio benedicti and Marenzelleria viridis were tested; one in the laboratory and one in the field.
- The size of the tube of Eodiorygma is only slightly greater than that of the feeding stage of Symbion, which has a U-shaped alimentary tract, tentaculate apparatus, and larval ability to settle on live tissue.

Origin

Mid 18th century: anglicized from modern Latin tentaculum, from Latin tentare, temptare 'to feel, try'.

This word has been anglicized from modern Latin tentaculum, from Latin tentare ‘to feel, handle, try’. Tentative (late 16th century) also comes from tentare

Rhymes

pentacle

Definition of tentacle in US English:

tentacle

nounˈten(t)ək(ə)lˈtɛn(t)ək(ə)l

1A slender, flexible limb or appendage in an animal, especially around the mouth of an invertebrate, used for grasping or moving about, or bearing sense organs.
触角，触手，触须，触器
Example sentencesExamples
- Though fairly simple animals, the tentacles of sea anemones are covered with intricate stinging cells used both for defence and for capturing prey.
- Another tentacle wrapped around her mouth, and her breathing stopped.
- Beneath their tentacles is a mouth full of teeth the size of fingers.
- The head projects into a crown of prehensile tentacles - ranging from 8 in the octopus to 80 or 90 in the living nautilus.
- The tip of the snout is expanded into a naked pink disc which supports 22 finger-like tentacles or feelers which give this creature its name.
- A male blanket octopus fills a modified tentacle with sperm, tears it off, presents it to its prospective mates, and then drifts off to certain death.
- If we approach carefully, the beautiful patterning on the soft tissues, the slender tentacles and iridescent eye spots can all be observed.
- It has powerful arms and tentacles, excellent underwater vision, and a razor-sharp beak that easily tears through the flesh of its prey.
- In a group round the mouth were sixteen slender, almost whiplike tentacles, arranged in two bunches of eight each.
- These feet are long, thin, flexible tentacles ending in tiny suction cups.
- The tentacles around the mouth are disposed in concentric circles, usually forming a series of radial lines rather than being alternately arranged.
- Older males in particular also have tentacles on the first few spines of their dorsal fins.
- It is believed that they captured prey with their retractable tentacles and passed it to their mouth where a beak-like jaw tore it into pieces.
- At one end of the animal is a mouth surrounded by tentacles.
- Something in the water had wrapped its arms or tentacles around his legs and was dragging him down despite his efforts.
- The bud develops its own mouth and set of feeding tentacles but shares a gut, and hence its food, with its parent.
- The squid's tentacles are armed with suckers, each ringed with tiny teeth to help snare prey.
- The tentacles contain harpoon-like stinging capsules called nematocysts that the anemones employ to capture prey and ward off predators.
- The feature shared by this group is the lophophore, an unusual feeding appendage bearing hollow tentacles.
- These anemone eat small crustaceans, plankton and various tidepool animals that venture into the range of their stinging tentacles.
Synonyms
antenna, horn
1. 1.1 (in a plant) a tendril or a sensitive glandular hair.
  （植物的）触毛
  Example sentencesExamples
  Nearby spread the prehistoric-looking tentacles of Welwitschia plants that date from the age of the dinosaurs.
  Ivy is a particular problem: it can look very attractive, but its tentacles will reach into every crack and damage tiles and brickwork.
  Under certain conditions the spores grow extravagantly, infiltrating the tree with multitudes of thread-thin tentacles.
  The mychorrhizal fungi live on the roots and physically extend the plant's reach for nutrients and water with hairlike tentacles called hyphae.
  It was partially obscured by the wilted tentacles of a suspended epiphyte.
2. 1.2 Something resembling a tentacle in shape or flexibility.
  似触手的东西
  trailing tentacles of vapor
  袅袅腾腾的烟雾。
3. 1.3usually tentacles An insidious spread of influence and control.
  〈喻〉影响力；束缚；约束
  the Party's tentacles reached into every nook and cranny of people's lives
  党的影响力已经渗透到了人们生活的方方面面。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The mystery this film sets up is how far have the tentacles and influence of the rebellion infiltrated the town?
  And they're the most obvious sign of the West's relentless tentacles reaching into Angola today.
  Winner takes it all mentality has successfully spread its tentacles deep into our societal fabric and has infiltrated our institutions.
  The drought has spread its tentacles deep inside the jungle.
  A gang who spread the tentacles of their evil drug-dealing ring to York have been warned they face substantial prison sentences.
  Corruption has long tentacles that endeavours to reach far.
  The anticapitalist movement has spread its tentacles into the Middle East through the antiwar movement.
  The tentacles of this organization reach across the nation.
  The trade's tentacles continue to reach far and wide.
  But elsewhere in the world terrorism has spread its tentacles, leaving heavy tolls in its wake.
  But as capitalism spreads its tentacles across the globe this trend is changing.
  Cultural capital, based in most cases on financial capital and class privilege, spreads its tentacles both on the Left and the Right.
  The bank grew three fold in its network in the '70s and spread its tentacles in seven other states.
  Its transnational tentacles reach into every corner of the globe.
  In China, 17 percent of the population has yet to hear of AIDS, even as the disease spreads its tentacles there.
  He soon came back to Wales, to the big War that had started and was spreading its tentacles around the whole of Europe.
  The music festival that spreads its diverse tentacles from Aberdeen south to Glasgow and Edinburgh is now in its sixth year.
  Over the years, gentrification spread its tentacles north of the river and then the moon villages became a prime real estate target.
  They are giant multinational corporations, with their tentacles spread across the globe.
  We are not suggesting that this kind of incident is commonplace in this area as yet, but with crime spreading its tentacles wide out from the capital city, we are all now in danger from this kind of incident.

Origin

Mid 18th century: anglicized from modern Latin tentaculum, from Latin tentare, temptare ‘to feel, try’.

单词	tentacle
释义	Definition of tentacle in English: tentacle noun ˈtɛntək(ə)lˈtɛn(t)ək(ə)l 1A slender, flexible limb or appendage in an animal, especially around the mouth of an invertebrate, used for grasping or moving about, or bearing sense organs. 触角，触手，触须，触器 Example sentencesExamples The bud develops its own mouth and set of feeding tentacles but shares a gut, and hence its food, with its parent. The feature shared by this group is the lophophore, an unusual feeding appendage bearing hollow tentacles. These feet are long, thin, flexible tentacles ending in tiny suction cups. The tentacles around the mouth are disposed in concentric circles, usually forming a series of radial lines rather than being alternately arranged. A male blanket octopus fills a modified tentacle with sperm, tears it off, presents it to its prospective mates, and then drifts off to certain death. It has powerful arms and tentacles, excellent underwater vision, and a razor-sharp beak that easily tears through the flesh of its prey. Something in the water had wrapped its arms or tentacles around his legs and was dragging him down despite his efforts. In a group round the mouth were sixteen slender, almost whiplike tentacles, arranged in two bunches of eight each. It is believed that they captured prey with their retractable tentacles and passed it to their mouth where a beak-like jaw tore it into pieces. The tentacles contain harpoon-like stinging capsules called nematocysts that the anemones employ to capture prey and ward off predators. The squid's tentacles are armed with suckers, each ringed with tiny teeth to help snare prey. The head projects into a crown of prehensile tentacles - ranging from 8 in the octopus to 80 or 90 in the living nautilus. Though fairly simple animals, the tentacles of sea anemones are covered with intricate stinging cells used both for defence and for capturing prey. At one end of the animal is a mouth surrounded by tentacles. If we approach carefully, the beautiful patterning on the soft tissues, the slender tentacles and iridescent eye spots can all be observed. Beneath their tentacles is a mouth full of teeth the size of fingers. The tip of the snout is expanded into a naked pink disc which supports 22 finger-like tentacles or feelers which give this creature its name. Another tentacle wrapped around her mouth, and her breathing stopped. Older males in particular also have tentacles on the first few spines of their dorsal fins. These anemone eat small crustaceans, plankton and various tidepool animals that venture into the range of their stinging tentacles. Synonyms antenna, horn 1.1 (in a plant) a tendril or a sensitive glandular hair. （植物的）触毛 Example sentencesExamples It was partially obscured by the wilted tentacles of a suspended epiphyte. Nearby spread the prehistoric-looking tentacles of Welwitschia plants that date from the age of the dinosaurs. The mychorrhizal fungi live on the roots and physically extend the plant's reach for nutrients and water with hairlike tentacles called hyphae. Ivy is a particular problem: it can look very attractive, but its tentacles will reach into every crack and damage tiles and brickwork. Under certain conditions the spores grow extravagantly, infiltrating the tree with multitudes of thread-thin tentacles. 1.2 Something resembling a tentacle in shape or flexibility. 似触手的东西 trailing tentacles of vapour 袅袅腾腾的烟雾。 1.3usually tentacles An insidious spread of influence and control. 〈喻〉影响力；束缚；约束 the Party's tentacles reached into every nook and cranny of people's lives 党的影响力已经渗透到了人们生活的方方面面。 Example sentencesExamples In China, 17 percent of the population has yet to hear of AIDS, even as the disease spreads its tentacles there. Over the years, gentrification spread its tentacles north of the river and then the moon villages became a prime real estate target. Cultural capital, based in most cases on financial capital and class privilege, spreads its tentacles both on the Left and the Right. We are not suggesting that this kind of incident is commonplace in this area as yet, but with crime spreading its tentacles wide out from the capital city, we are all now in danger from this kind of incident. The tentacles of this organization reach across the nation. The anticapitalist movement has spread its tentacles into the Middle East through the antiwar movement. The music festival that spreads its diverse tentacles from Aberdeen south to Glasgow and Edinburgh is now in its sixth year. Its transnational tentacles reach into every corner of the globe. The mystery this film sets up is how far have the tentacles and influence of the rebellion infiltrated the town? But elsewhere in the world terrorism has spread its tentacles, leaving heavy tolls in its wake. And they're the most obvious sign of the West's relentless tentacles reaching into Angola today. The bank grew three fold in its network in the '70s and spread its tentacles in seven other states. They are giant multinational corporations, with their tentacles spread across the globe. But as capitalism spreads its tentacles across the globe this trend is changing. Winner takes it all mentality has successfully spread its tentacles deep into our societal fabric and has infiltrated our institutions. The trade's tentacles continue to reach far and wide. The drought has spread its tentacles deep inside the jungle. Corruption has long tentacles that endeavours to reach far. A gang who spread the tentacles of their evil drug-dealing ring to York have been warned they face substantial prison sentences. He soon came back to Wales, to the big War that had started and was spreading its tentacles around the whole of Europe. Derivatives tentacled adjectiveˈtɛntək(ə)ldˈtɛn(t)ək(ə)ld Too often, these series are overblown and melodramatic, populated by gigantic, tentacled demons and screeching, white-haired ghosts, telling the same formulaic stories over and over again. Example sentencesExamples Nationally-protected tentacled lagoon worms were discovered at the site of the £124m Channel Tunnel Rail Link bridge works over the River Medway. We knew that this monster is hydra-headed, many tentacled. The Orson Welles broadcast of a four-decade-old H.G. Wells novel was so convincing that horrified listeners peered skyward for glimpses of tentacled invaders arriving in their war machines. The common space between offices is dominated by a series of sculptures, such as a cross between an acorn and a human head and a freestanding metallic, tentacled thing strewn across the floor. tentacular adjective tɛnˈtakjʊlətɛnˈtækjələr French journalists and media workers often think of media conglomerates as tentacular creatures: Hachette (publishing, print media distribution, etc.) was long called ‘the octopus’. Example sentencesExamples The response consists of tentacular writhing and mouth opening and is similar to the feeding response seen in A. pallida. The grands corps were the powerhouses of the state, and established a tentacular grasp on other key institutions. The lophophore, a ciliated, tentacular organ for feeding, of varying three-dimensional morphology, is suspended between the mantles. Davidson emphasized the Port Authority's openness to criticism by showing how the plan incorporates the original terminal's tentacular tubes, omitted from a first scheme. tentaculate adjective tɛnˈtakjʊlət But look carefully and you will see the tentaculate zooids that confirm their animal nature. Example sentencesExamples Two tentaculate surface deposit feeders, Streblospio benedicti and Marenzelleria viridis were tested; one in the laboratory and one in the field. The size of the tube of Eodiorygma is only slightly greater than that of the feeding stage of Symbion, which has a U-shaped alimentary tract, tentaculate apparatus, and larval ability to settle on live tissue. Origin Mid 18th century: anglicized from modern Latin tentaculum, from Latin tentare, temptare 'to feel, try'. This word has been anglicized from modern Latin tentaculum, from Latin tentare ‘to feel, handle, try’. Tentative (late 16th century) also comes from tentare Rhymes pentacle Definition of tentacle in US English: tentacle nounˈten(t)ək(ə)lˈtɛn(t)ək(ə)l 1A slender, flexible limb or appendage in an animal, especially around the mouth of an invertebrate, used for grasping or moving about, or bearing sense organs. 触角，触手，触须，触器 Example sentencesExamples Though fairly simple animals, the tentacles of sea anemones are covered with intricate stinging cells used both for defence and for capturing prey. Another tentacle wrapped around her mouth, and her breathing stopped. Beneath their tentacles is a mouth full of teeth the size of fingers. The head projects into a crown of prehensile tentacles - ranging from 8 in the octopus to 80 or 90 in the living nautilus. The tip of the snout is expanded into a naked pink disc which supports 22 finger-like tentacles or feelers which give this creature its name. A male blanket octopus fills a modified tentacle with sperm, tears it off, presents it to its prospective mates, and then drifts off to certain death. If we approach carefully, the beautiful patterning on the soft tissues, the slender tentacles and iridescent eye spots can all be observed. It has powerful arms and tentacles, excellent underwater vision, and a razor-sharp beak that easily tears through the flesh of its prey. In a group round the mouth were sixteen slender, almost whiplike tentacles, arranged in two bunches of eight each. These feet are long, thin, flexible tentacles ending in tiny suction cups. The tentacles around the mouth are disposed in concentric circles, usually forming a series of radial lines rather than being alternately arranged. Older males in particular also have tentacles on the first few spines of their dorsal fins. It is believed that they captured prey with their retractable tentacles and passed it to their mouth where a beak-like jaw tore it into pieces. At one end of the animal is a mouth surrounded by tentacles. Something in the water had wrapped its arms or tentacles around his legs and was dragging him down despite his efforts. The bud develops its own mouth and set of feeding tentacles but shares a gut, and hence its food, with its parent. The squid's tentacles are armed with suckers, each ringed with tiny teeth to help snare prey. The tentacles contain harpoon-like stinging capsules called nematocysts that the anemones employ to capture prey and ward off predators. The feature shared by this group is the lophophore, an unusual feeding appendage bearing hollow tentacles. These anemone eat small crustaceans, plankton and various tidepool animals that venture into the range of their stinging tentacles. Synonyms antenna, horn 1.1 (in a plant) a tendril or a sensitive glandular hair. （植物的）触毛 Example sentencesExamples Nearby spread the prehistoric-looking tentacles of Welwitschia plants that date from the age of the dinosaurs. Ivy is a particular problem: it can look very attractive, but its tentacles will reach into every crack and damage tiles and brickwork. Under certain conditions the spores grow extravagantly, infiltrating the tree with multitudes of thread-thin tentacles. The mychorrhizal fungi live on the roots and physically extend the plant's reach for nutrients and water with hairlike tentacles called hyphae. It was partially obscured by the wilted tentacles of a suspended epiphyte. 1.2 Something resembling a tentacle in shape or flexibility. 似触手的东西 trailing tentacles of vapor 袅袅腾腾的烟雾。 1.3usually tentacles An insidious spread of influence and control. 〈喻〉影响力；束缚；约束 the Party's tentacles reached into every nook and cranny of people's lives 党的影响力已经渗透到了人们生活的方方面面。 Example sentencesExamples The mystery this film sets up is how far have the tentacles and influence of the rebellion infiltrated the town? And they're the most obvious sign of the West's relentless tentacles reaching into Angola today. Winner takes it all mentality has successfully spread its tentacles deep into our societal fabric and has infiltrated our institutions. The drought has spread its tentacles deep inside the jungle. A gang who spread the tentacles of their evil drug-dealing ring to York have been warned they face substantial prison sentences. Corruption has long tentacles that endeavours to reach far. The anticapitalist movement has spread its tentacles into the Middle East through the antiwar movement. The tentacles of this organization reach across the nation. The trade's tentacles continue to reach far and wide. But elsewhere in the world terrorism has spread its tentacles, leaving heavy tolls in its wake. But as capitalism spreads its tentacles across the globe this trend is changing. Cultural capital, based in most cases on financial capital and class privilege, spreads its tentacles both on the Left and the Right. The bank grew three fold in its network in the '70s and spread its tentacles in seven other states. Its transnational tentacles reach into every corner of the globe. In China, 17 percent of the population has yet to hear of AIDS, even as the disease spreads its tentacles there. He soon came back to Wales, to the big War that had started and was spreading its tentacles around the whole of Europe. The music festival that spreads its diverse tentacles from Aberdeen south to Glasgow and Edinburgh is now in its sixth year. Over the years, gentrification spread its tentacles north of the river and then the moon villages became a prime real estate target. They are giant multinational corporations, with their tentacles spread across the globe. We are not suggesting that this kind of incident is commonplace in this area as yet, but with crime spreading its tentacles wide out from the capital city, we are all now in danger from this kind of incident. Origin Mid 18th century: anglicized from modern Latin tentaculum, from Latin tentare, temptare ‘to feel, try’.
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