TENTACLES
\tˈɛntəkə͡lz], \tˈɛntəkəlz], \t_ˈɛ_n_t_ə_k_əl_z]\
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Slender flexible organs proceeding from the heads of many tribes of the smaller animals, and used for the purposes of feeling, exploring, prehension, locomotion, or for attachment to other bodies, as in the snails, insects, crabs, cuttle-fish, &c.; feelers.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.