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Any of various elongate flexible simple or branched processes that are usually tactile or prehensile or both in function but sometimes have other functions (as respiration or locomotion) and that are borne by animals chiefly on the head or about the mouth

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  • And so, they have, if you want to use the word tentacles, out into all of these.
  • Thursday, a 7-year-old girl apparently had tentacles from a Portuguese Man o 'War wrapped around her leg, producing painful stings.
  • The jingly bells added to the end of the tentacles is a touch of GEEEEEEnius.
  • Two of the tentacles are atrophying and inside the other two, a kind of stiff cartilage is growing.
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