TENTACULA
\tɛntˈakjʊlə], \tɛntˈakjʊlə], \t_ɛ_n_t_ˈa_k_j_ʊ_l_ə]\
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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.