tentacle

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun something that acts like a tentacle in its ability to grasp and hold
noun any of various elongated tactile or prehensile flexible organs that occur on the head or near the mouth in many animals; used for feeling or grasping or locomotion

From New Latin tentāculum, from tentō. Doublet of tentaculum.

The uplifted tentacle was moving. — The Lock and Key Library: Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Modern English, Unknown
For a time the tentacle was silent. — The war of the worlds, H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Torpor was wrapping its tentacles about him. — Blow The Man Down: A Romance Of The Coast, Holman Day

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