0 one of the long, thin parts like arms of some sea animals, used for feeling and holding things, catching food, or moving
1 a long, thin, arm of some sea animals, such as the octopus and jellyfish
So, when the blanket octopus swims by a Portuguese man-of-war, it takes a tentacle.
When a clownfish chooses a sea anemone for a home, it lightly touches the tentacles with every part of its body to get used to the stings.
Moreover, for technical convenience the hyperedge is assumed to have exactly one tentacle to the replaced node.
Like an aggressive carcinoma, realizability stretches out its tentacles to ever more remote fields: linear logic, complexity theory and rewrite theory have already been infected.
The guardian state has increasingly extended its tentacles over international monetary policy options such that no viable international regime could ever compromise national economic autonomy.
