Usually means: Flexible appendage used for grasping.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word tentacle:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. tentacle: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. tentacle: Merriam-Webster
  3. tentacle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. tentacle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. tentacle: Collins English Dictionary
  6. tentacle: Vocabulary.com
  7. Tentacle, tentacle: Wordnik
  8. tentacle: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Tentacle, Tentacle: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  10. tentacle: Wiktionary
  11. tentacle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  12. tentacle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  13. tentacle: Infoplease Dictionary
  14. tentacle: Dictionary.com
  15. tentacle: Online Etymology Dictionary
  16. tentacle: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  17. Tentacle (album), Tentacle (botany), Tentacle (disambiguation), Tentacle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  18. Tentacle: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  19. tentacle: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  20. tentacle: Rhymezone
  21. Tentacle: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  22. tentacle: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  23. tentacle: FreeDictionary.org
  24. tentacle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. tentacle: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. tentacle: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tentacle: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. tentacle: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. tentacle: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Tentacle: The Orchid Lady's Illustrated Orchid Encyclopedia

(Note: See tentacled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (zoology) An elongated, boneless, flexible organ or limb of some animals, such as the octopus and squid.
noun:  (botany) One of the glandular hairs on the leaves of certain insectivorous plants.
noun:  (figurative) An insidious reach or influence.
noun:  (figurative) Something like a zoological limb.
noun:  (UK, military, historical) An officer employed to drive out to troops and transmit back requests for support via a special radio link.
verb:  to move like a tentacle

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