tentacle

/ten-tuh-kuhl/US // ˈtɛn tə kəl //UK // (ˈtɛntəkəl) //

触手,触角,触须,触头

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : Zoology. any of various slender, flexible processes or appendages in animals, especially invertebrates, that serve as organs of touch, prehension, etc.; feeler.
- : Botany. a sensitive filament or process, as one of the glandular hairs of the sundew.

nounappendage

Forms: tentacles

Synonyms

A future tool developed for debris removal, in the form of a robot tentacle arm, could also be used to lash out at and harm other satellites.
Oh, and also by blowing the tentacles clean off the zeppelin-sized extraterrestrials who swarm her with bullet-hell projectiles.
All 13 species have skin connecting their tentacles and ear-like fins that they flap to “fly” through the water.
Its cylindrical body has a foot that adheres to a surface, and a head with tentacles and a mouth that catches and eats prey.
Except for the nostrils, the inside of an elephant’s trunk is similar to an octopus’s tentacle or a mammal’s tongue, says William Kier.
Not too shabby for a creature less than a year old who had never set a tentacle on the pitch.
He allowed himself to be led to a window where the machine with waving tentacle pointed towards an object outside.
A tentacle whipped up and touched Flannery, who sat with his hands off the control box.
Slowly, inexorably, that mottled tentacle curled downward with its prey, and a portion of the under side of the rock became alive!
But on three sides there were white, opaque walls, so near that he could have touched them by stretching out a tentacle.
At Ebors entrance he raised a limp tentacle in weary greeting and said, Come in, my friend, come in.

Examples

A future tool developed for debris removal, in the form of a robot tentacle arm, could also be used to lash out at and harm other satellites.

Oh, and also by blowing the tentacles clean off the zeppelin-sized extraterrestrials who swarm her with bullet-hell projectiles.

All 13 species have skin connecting their tentacles and ear-like fins that they flap to “fly” through the water.

Its cylindrical body has a foot that adheres to a surface, and a head with tentacles and a mouth that catches and eats prey.

Except for the nostrils, the inside of an elephant’s trunk is similar to an octopus’s tentacle or a mammal’s tongue, says William Kier.

Not too shabby for a creature less than a year old who had never set a tentacle on the pitch.

He allowed himself to be led to a window where the machine with waving tentacle pointed towards an object outside.

A tentacle whipped up and touched Flannery, who sat with his hands off the control box.

Slowly, inexorably, that mottled tentacle curled downward with its prey, and a portion of the under side of the rock became alive!

But on three sides there were white, opaque walls, so near that he could have touched them by stretching out a tentacle.

At Ebors entrance he raised a limp tentacle in weary greeting and said, Come in, my friend, come in.