Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - tentacle
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Tentacle
tentacle
(tentacles) 1. The tentacles of an animal such as an octopus are the long thin parts that are used for feeling and holding things, for getting food, and for moving. N-COUNT: usu pl 2. If you talk about the tentacles of a political, commercial, or social organization, you are referring to the power and influence that it has in the outside community. Free speech is being gradually eroded year after year by new tentacles of government control. N-COUNT: usu pl, with supp c darkgreen]disapproval
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noun Etymology: New Latin tentaculum, from Latin tentare to feel, touch — more at tempt Date: circa 1762 1. any of various elongate flexible usually tactile or prehensile processes borne by animals and especially invertebrates chiefly on the head or about the mouth 2. a. something that resembles a ~ especially in or as if in grasping or feeling out corruption spreading its ~s b. a sensitive hair or emergence on a plant (as the sundew) • ~d adjective ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. 1 a long slender flexible appendage of an (esp. invertebrate) animal, used for feeling, grasping, or moving. 2 a thing used like a tentacle as a feeler etc. 3 Bot. a sensitive hair or filament. Derivatives tentacled adj. (also in comb.). tentacular adj. tentaculate adj. Etymology: mod.L tentaculum f. L tentare = temptare (see TEMPT) + -culum -CULE ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1) щупальце; щупик 2) чувствительный волосок (у насекомоядных растений) – maxillary tentacle ...Англо-русский Русско-английский биологический словарь
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~ n one of the long thin parts of a sea creature such as an octopus which it uses for holding things ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- 1762, from Mod.L. tentaculum "feeler," from L. tentare "to feel, try" (variant of temptare "to feel, try, test") + -culum, diminutive suffix. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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