See tentacle in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "1873, Jules Verne, “The “Devil Fish.”—Terrible Encounter.—Crushed to Death in the Arms of a Monster.—Ned Land saved by the Captain.—“Only Revenge”.”, in [anonymous], transl., Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas; […], James R. Osgood edition, Boston, Mass.: Geo[rge] M[urray] Smith & Co., →OCLC, part II, page 274:",
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"text": "1897, H. G. Wells, The Crystal Egg\nThe body was small, but fitted with two bunches of prehensile organs, like long tentacles, immediately under the mouth."
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"text": "1936, H. P. Lovecraft, The Shadow Out of Time\nSurmounting this head were four slender grey stalks bearing flower-like appendages, whilst from its nether side dangled eight greenish antennae or tentacles."
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"sense": "elongated, boneless, flexible appendage",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tentacolo"
},
{
"alt": "しょくしゅ",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "shokushu",
"sense": "elongated, boneless, flexible appendage",
"word": "触手"
},
{
"code": "kk",
"lang": "Kazakh",
"roman": "qarmauyş",
"sense": "elongated, boneless, flexible appendage",
"word": "қармауыш"
},
{
"alt": "觸手",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "choksu",
"sense": "elongated, boneless, flexible appendage",
"word": "촉수"
},
{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "elongated, boneless, flexible appendage",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tausteklis"
},
{
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "elongated, boneless, flexible appendage",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "čiuptuvas"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "pipalo",
"sense": "elongated, boneless, flexible appendage",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "пипало"
},
{
"code": "mt",
"lang": "Maltese",
"sense": "elongated, boneless, flexible appendage",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "saba’"
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"code": "mt",
"lang": "Maltese",
"sense": "elongated, boneless, flexible appendage",
"tags": [
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"word": "seba’"
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"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "elongated, boneless, flexible appendage",
"word": "kāwai"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "elongated, boneless, flexible appendage",
"word": "kawe"
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"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "elongated, boneless, flexible appendage",
"word": "kawekawe"
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"code": "mi",
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"sense": "elongated, boneless, flexible appendage",
"word": "wekeweke"
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"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "elongated, boneless, flexible appendage",
"word": "ngongotua"
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{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "elongated, boneless, flexible appendage",
"word": "patapata"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "elongated, boneless, flexible appendage",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "tentakel"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "elongated, boneless, flexible appendage",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tentacul"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "bâzuče",
"sense": "elongated, boneless, flexible appendage",
"word": "بازوچه"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "elongated, boneless, flexible appendage",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "macka"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "elongated, boneless, flexible appendage",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tentáculo"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "elongated, boneless, flexible appendage",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "tentacul"
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{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ščúpalʹce",
"sense": "elongated, boneless, flexible appendage",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "щу́пальце"
},
{
"code": "sm",
"lang": "Samoan",
"sense": "elongated, boneless, flexible appendage",
"word": "ʻave"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "elongated, boneless, flexible appendage",
"tags": [
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"masculine"
],
"word": "пи́пак"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "elongated, boneless, flexible appendage",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"feminine"
],
"word": "пипаљка"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "elongated, boneless, flexible appendage",
"tags": [
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{
"code": "sh",
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"sense": "elongated, boneless, flexible appendage",
"tags": [
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"word": "pipaljka"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "elongated, boneless, flexible appendage",
"tags": [
"neuter"
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"word": "chápadlo"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "elongated, boneless, flexible appendage",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "lovka"
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "elongated, boneless, flexible appendage",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tentáculo"
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{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "elongated, boneless, flexible appendage",
"tags": [
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"word": "tentakel"
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{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "elongated, boneless, flexible appendage",
"word": "galamay"
},
{
"code": "to",
"lang": "Tongan",
"sense": "elongated, boneless, flexible appendage",
"word": "kave"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "elongated, boneless, flexible appendage",
"word": "dokunaç"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "elongated, boneless, flexible appendage",
"word": "tentakül"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "ščúpalʹce",
"sense": "elongated, boneless, flexible appendage",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "щу́пальце"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "elongated, boneless, flexible appendage",
"word": "xúc tu"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "žílka",
"sense": "glandular hairs on leaves",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "жи́лка"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "glandular hairs on leaves",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tentacule"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "insidious reach or influence",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tentacule"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "insidious reach or influence",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "pieuvre"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "insidious reach or influence",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "macka"
}
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"en:Plant anatomy"
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"glosses": [
"to move like a tentacle"
]
}
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"ipa": "/ˈtɛntɪkəl/"
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