something that acts like a tentacle in its ability to grasp and hold
<noun.attribute> caught in the tentacles of organized crime
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
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Tentacle \Ten"ta*cle\, n. [NL. tentaculum, from L. tentare to handle, feel: cf. F. tentacule. See {Tempt}.] (Zo["o]l.) 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 sheath} (Zo["o]l.), a sheathlike structure around the base of the tentacles of many mollusks.
"I had a prosthetic belly button and this tentacle came out of it," Scarabelli said. "Kids thought it was so gross, but they loved it.
Instead, as you're stripping off your wet suit, you order a rum punch, look into your dive-buddy's eyes, and say something like: "That tentacle must have been 20 feet long."
One of their eight-armed subjects stretched a tentacle and softly touched Stone's lips - the only part of her body not covered by wetsuit.