Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Provided with or having tentacles.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a tentacle or tentacles.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Having tentacles.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having
tentacles .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having tentacles
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Examples
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On a recent episode of Argentina's "Un Mundo Perfecto" program, host Roberto Pettinato -- said to be a Howard Stern-like shock jock -- dubbed his tentacled victim "a Nazi" before hacking off its head and then placing hunks of the carcass into a blender.
'Nazi Octopus' Slain By Argentine TV Host In World Cup Revenge (VIDEO) 2010
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The atmosphere at the Krusty Krab has the monochrome tint of a Gen X workplace satire, a Clerks or an Office Space; Mr. Krabs cackles over his money, while Squidward, the tentacled sourpuss at the register, droops with ennui.
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In the three days that followed, the picture being ejected from the typewriter had changed to in no particular order: A tentacled monster knitting at the bottom of the ocean; A fallen angel with a broken wing; and a legion of sterilized zombies erupting from a pharmaceutical laboratory.
Automatic Typewriter Brianne Baxtali 2011
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In John Carpenter's The Fog, a California fishing town is attacked by the ghosts of dead sailors when fog descends; in Stephen King's novella The Mist, another small town is similarly terrorised, but this time the fog contains tentacled monsters.
Culture flash: fog 2011
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It's called, appropriately enough, the tentacled snake, and a Vanderbilt University researcher recently documented how this snake uses its body to - in essence - make fish swim right into its mouth.
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The atmosphere at the Krusty Krab has the monochrome tint of a Gen X workplace satire, a Clerks or an Office Space; Mr. Krabs cackles over his money, while Squidward, the tentacled sourpuss at the register, droops with ennui.
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The discovery of the deepest known "black smoker" vents has revealed eyeless shrimps and white tentacled anemones living 3.1 miles below the surface in a Caribbean rift.
'Black Smoker' Vents: New Species Discovered Near Deepest Undersea Hot Springs (PHOTOS) The Huffington Post News Editors 2012
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It would hang, an absurdly massive tentacled sepia event.
Archive 2010-03-01 Blue Tyson 2010
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Get a load of this: "A pulpy, tentacled head surmounted a grotesque and scaly body with rudimentary wings", with elements of "an octopus, a dragon, and a human caricature", "but it was the general outline of the whole that made it most shockingly frightful".
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Or bubbling vile tentacled horrors from beyond spacetime.
Archive 2010-05-01 Blue Tyson 2010
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