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tentacle

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

触手,触角,触须,触头

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 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.

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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.