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tentacled

[ten-tuh-kuhld]

adjective

having tentacles.

Also, ten·tac·u·lat·ed

[ten-tak-yuh-ley-tid] .

Origin:
1855–60; tentacle + -ed³

Related forms

mul·ti·ten·ta·cled, adjective

un·ten·ta·cled, adjective

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tentacle (ˈtɛntək^əl)

—n
1.	any of various elongated flexible organs that occur near the mouth in many invertebrates and are used for feeding, grasping, etc
2.	any of the hairs on the leaf of an insectivorous plant that are used to capture prey
3.	something resembling a tentacle, esp in its ability to reach out or grasp

[C18: from New Latin tentāculum, from Latin tentāre, variant of temptāre to feel]

'tentacled

—*adj*

'tentacle-like

—*adj*

tentaculoid

—*adj*

tentacular

—*adj*

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"An oblong puddle inset in the coarse asphalt; like a fancy footprint filled to the brim with quicksilver; like a spatulate hole through which you can see the nether sky. Surrounded, I note, by a diffuse tentacled black dampness where some dull dun dead leaves have stuck. Drowned, I should say, before the puddle had shrunk to its present size."

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