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tentacled

[ ten-tuh-kuhld ]

adjective

  1. having tentacles.


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Other Words From

  • multi·tenta·cled adjective
  • un·tenta·cled adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of tentacled1

First recorded in 1855–60; tentacle + -ed 3

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Example Sentences

Otto’s a friend and mentor to Maguire’s Peter Parker before he becomes a metal-tentacled monster.

As she makes her way across the planet—shooting at many-tentacled monsters as she goes—Selene will inevitably die, die and die again.

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We didn't meet a tentacled Yellow King from another dimension.

As the sports page has gone digital, its "free advertising" has tentacled out even further.

But they paid no present attention to him or to the small tentacled animals.

Great sea slugs crawled about on the bottom with gigantic starfish, and actiniae of vivid colours spread their tentacled blossoms.

The solitary individuals rise three or four inches by a nearly straight stalk, surmounted by a many-tentacled head.

Somehow, the two young ladies felt the chilly presence of a tentacled fish out of water, that was wholly inexplicable.

It has large claws in which it holds anemones, tentacled sea animals with no power of motion.

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