tentacle

An elongated flexible unsegmented extension, as one of those surrounding the mouth of a sea anemone, used for feeling, grasping, or locomotion.

One of these structures in a cephalopod, typically being retractile and having a clublike end usually with suckers or hooks, in contrast to an arm, which is nonretractile and typically has suckers along the underside.

One of the sensitive hairs on the leaves of certain insectivorous plants, such as a sundew.

A similar part or extension, especially with respect to the ability to grasp or stretch.

In zoology, some or any elongated and comparatively slender or flexible process or appendage of an animal, used as an organ of touch, or for exploration, prehension, and sometimes locomotion; a feeler; a tentaculum.

In botany, a kind of sensitive hair or filament, such as the glandular hairs of Drosera.

Figuratively, anything resembling a tentacle; a feeler.

See the adjectives.

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.