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noun something that acts like a tentacle in its ability to grasp and hold
noun 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
originFrom New Latin tentāculum, from tentō. Doublet of tentaculum.
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