tentacle

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After the protoplasm in a tentacle has been aggregated, its redissolution always begins in the lower part, and slowly travels up the pedicel to the gland, so that the protoplasm last aggregated is first redissolved.

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  1. noun Zoology An elongated flexible unsegmented extension, as one of those surrounding the mouth or oral cavity of the squid, used for feeling, grasping, or locomotion.
  2. noun Botany One of the sensitive hairs on the leaves of insectivorous plants, such as the sundew.
  3. noun A similar part or extension, especially with respect to the ability to grasp or stretch: an espionage network with far-reaching tentacles.

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  • This tentacle was of modified muscular tissue; on excitation through the nervous system, it discharged a powerful electric shock I N 2602, Mirg in this manner electrocuted a terrified Terran he encountered while the spaceship he astrogated lay docked on Callisto. —  OCTOBER, 1953 Vol
  • At the other end of the tentacle, the machine teetered. —  AnalogSFF,July-August2007
  • His brother grabs up the knife he was using to cut cod and commences sawing at that gripping tentacle, all muscle and the suckers clamped tight enough [138] to leave terrible marks. —  The Shipping News
  • Yet the girl still wore the tentacle, and it wasn't squeezing her at all. —  Cube Route
  • What followed the tentacle was more than a creature of nightmare. —  Witch Fire.htm
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  1. New Latin tentāculum, from Latin tentāre, to feel, try; see tentative.

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  1. = French tentacule = Spanish tentáculo, from New Latin tentaculum, a feeler, tentacle, from Latin tentare, handle, touch, feel, test, try: see tent, tempt.
 

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