tentacles

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Definition of tentacles in English Turkish dictionary

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tentacle

dokunaç

Kafadanbacaklılar, dokunaçlar ve bilateral vücut simetrisi ile tanımlanan deniz hayvanlarıdırlar. - Cephalopods are marine animals characterised by tentacles and bilateral body symmetry.

Dokunaçlı hayvanların çoğu omurgasızdır. - Most animals with tentacles are invertebrates.

tentacle

ince kıl

tentacle

{i} ercik sapı

tentacle

(Tıp) Kamçı

English - English

Definition of tentacles in English English dictionary

Any of a variety of long, slender, flexible growths found around the head or mouths of invertebrates

Appendages on sea organisms that contain suckers or stinging cells Used to grasp food and move around

plural of tentacle

– Soft flexible appendages in aquatic invertebrates that are used to aid in feeding In oysters, these small organs are located on the edge of the mantle and are used for the detection of environmental stimuli

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tentacle

An elongated, boneless, flexible organ or limb of some animals, such as the octopus and squid

Surmounting this head were four slender grey stalks bearing flower-like appendages, whilst from its nether side dangled eight greenish antennae or tentacles.

tentacle

A more or less elongated process or organ, simple or branched, proceeding from the head or cephalic region of invertebrate animals, being either an organ of sense, prehension, or motion

tentacle

disapproval If you talk about the tentacles of a political, commercial, or social organization, you are referring to the power and influence that it has in the outside community. Free speech is being gradually eroded year after year by new tentacles of government control

tentacle

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

tentacle

{i} flexible appendage functioning as an organ of touch motion or prehension

tentacle

The tentacles of an animal such as an octopus are the long thin parts that are used for feeling and holding things, for getting food, and for moving

tentacle

something that acts like a tentacle in its ability to grasp; "caught in the tentacles of organized crime"

Turkish pronunciation

tentıkılz

Pronunciation

/ˈtentəkəlz/ /ˈtɛntəkəlz/

Etymology

[ 'ten-ti-k&l ] (noun.) 1762. New Latin tentaculum, from Latin tentare to feel, touch; more at TEMPT.