tenacle

Definitions

noun rare A stalk or shoot by which a plant holds itself up, or by which climbing plants attach themselves to surfaces.

From Latin tenaculum, from tenere ‘to hold’.

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And even if you appear to cut off a tenacle, it either grows right back under a different name or doubles.

Democrats squandering opportunity for self-examination, Obama at another new low - E_Pluribus_Unum’s blog - RedState 2009
Read a porno Manga comic on the commute to work, download some Hentai tenacle sex, and top of the day with your cell phone doing some upskirt shots or video on the shuttle ride home...where you can download your "Booty" haul to other upskirt or boob closeup shots to other affictionados.

Requiring digital cameras and camera phones to make an audible click. Ann Althouse 2009
All the hentai, manga comix, tenacle sex, out there.

"Obama to Dispatch Female Surrogates" -- that NYT headline I flagged last night -- is now: "Obama Camp Turns to Clinton to Counter Palin." Ann Althouse 2008
We already know they have better cell phones, game shows and tenacle porn than we do ... and now, they're even encouraging students to use a Nintendo DS for learning.

G4TV - The Feed 2009