tentacle

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An elongated, boneless, flexible organ or limb of some animals, such as the octopus and squid.
    — With one blow of the axe, Captain Nemo cut this formidable tentacle, that slid wriggling down the ladder.
  2. One of the glandular hairs on the leaves of certain insectivorous plants.
  3. An insidious reach or influence. figuratively
    — the tentacles of the criminal underworld
  4. Something like a zoological limb. figuratively
  5. An officer employed to drive out to troops and transmit back requests for support via a special radio link. UK,historical
    — A joint RAF/Army staffed Air Support Control (ASC) headquarters was established at each army corps and each armoured division, linked to the forward brigades by a 'tentacle' equipped with two-way wireless telegraphy.
动词 v.
  1. To move like a tentacle

词形变化

tentacles plural tentacles present,singular,third-person tentacling participle,present tentacled participle,past tentacled past

词汇关系

近义词
tentaculum
衍生词
microtentacle tentabulge tentacled tentaclelike tentacular tentaculiferous tentaculiform tentaculoid tentadick

词源

词源 1
From New Latin tentāculum, from tentō. Doublet of tentaculum.
词源 2
From New Latin tentāculum, from tentō. Doublet of tentaculum.
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