English words for 'Within a single tentacle'
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noun
- something that acts like a tentacle in its ability to grasp and hold
- any of various elongated tactile or prehensile flexible organs that occur on the head or near the mouth in many animals; used for feeling or grasping or locomotion
- (botany) One of the glandular hairs on the leaves of certain insectivorous plants.
- (UK, military, historical) An officer employed to drive out to troops and transmit back requests for support via a special radio link.
- (figurative) Something like a zoological limb.
- (zoology) An elongated, boneless, flexible organ or limb of some animals, such as the octopus and squid.
- (figurative) An insidious reach or influence.
verb
noun
- bottom-living cephalopod having a soft oval body with eight long tentacles
- tentacles of octopus prepared as food
- (countable, strictly) A mollusc from genus Octopus.
- (uncountable) The flesh of these marine molluscs eaten as food.
- (American football, informal) An instance of a player scoring a touchdown immediately followed by a successful two-point conversion, resulting in a total score of eight points.
- (countable, loosely) Any of several marine molluscs of the order Octopoda, having no internal or external protective shell or bone (unlike the nautilus, squid and cuttlefish) and eight arms each covered with suckers.
- (countable) An organization that has many powerful branches controlled from the centre.
- (countable, diving) A safety device allowing divers to share an air supply in an emergency.
verb
- To plug a large number of devices into a single electric outlet.
- To hunt and catch octopuses.
- (by extension) To grow in use vastly beyond what was originally intended.
- To spread out in long arms or legs in many directions.
- To put (or attempt to put) one's fingers, hands or arms in many things or places at roughly the same time.
- To behave like an octopus.
noun
adj
noun
- A similar appendage of a cetacean or other marine animal.
- A similar structure protruding from a projectile, used to help keep it on course.
- (UK, formerly Australia, slang) a five-pound (£5) note; the sum of five pounds.
- (surfing) A similar structure on the bottom of a surfboard, used to help steer it.
- (nautical) The conning tower of a submarine.
- An extending part on a surface of a radiator, engine, heatsink, etc., used to facilitate cooling.
- A thin, rigid component of an aircraft, extending from the fuselage and used to stabilise and steer the aircraft.
- A hairstyle, resembling the fin of a fish, in which the hair is combed and set into a vertical ridge along the top of the head from about the crown to the forehead.
- A sharp raised edge (generally in concrete) capable of damaging a roof membrane or vapor retarder.
- (ichthyology, zootomy) One of the appendages of a fish, used to propel itself and to manoeuvre/maneuver.
- A device worn by divers and swimmers on their feet.
- a stabilizer on a ship that resembles the fin of a fish
- one of a set of parallel slats in a door or window to admit air and reject rain
- the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one
- organ of locomotion and balance in fishes and some other aquatic animals
- one of a pair of decorations projecting above the rear fenders of an automobile
- a shoe for swimming; the paddle-like front is an aid in swimming (especially underwater)
verb
- (intransitive) (Of a fish) to swim with the dorsal fin above the surface of the water.
- (intransitive) To swim in the manner of a fish.
- (transitive) To provide (a motor vehicle etc) with fins.
- (transitive) To cut the fins from a fish, shark, etc.
- propel oneself through the water in a finning motion
- show the fins above the water while swimming
- equip (a car) with fins
noun
- minute freshwater crustacean having a round body enclosed in a transparent shell; moves about like a flea by means of hairy branched antennae
- minute free-swimming freshwater copepod having a large median eye and pear-shaped body and long antennae used in swimming; important in some food chains and as intermediate hosts of parasitic worms that affect man e.g. Guinea worms
- Any of various aquatic crustacea of the order Diplostraca, characterised by their jumping or jerky mode of swimming.
noun
- The main body of a jellyfish, excluding the tentacles.
- (figurative) Anything that provides similar protection.
- (figurative) Anything that provides similar overarching coverage of a range of concepts, purposes, groups, etc.
- A cloth-covered frame used for protection against rain or sun.
- (ice hockey) A strategy in which five players in the offensive zone form an umbrella-shaped formation around the opposition's goal net.
- (photography, television) An umbrella-shaped reflector with a white or silvery inner surface, used to diffuse a nearby light.
- having the function of uniting a group of similar things
- a lightweight handheld collapsible canopy
- a formation of military planes maintained over ground operations or targets
verb
adj
noun
adj
noun
- a grasping structure on the limb of a crustacean or other arthropods
- sharp curved horny process on the toe of a bird or some mammals or reptiles
- a bird's foot
- a mechanical device that is curved or bent to suspend or hold or pull something
- (colloquial) A human fingernail, particularly one extending well beyond the fingertip.
- A foot equipped with such.
- (graph theory) A tree with one internal vertex and three leaves.
- The pincer (chela) of a crustacean or other arthropod.
- A mechanical device resembling a claw, used for gripping or lifting.
- (juggling) The act of catching a ball overhand.
- A curved, pointed, horny projection on each digit of the foot of a mammal, reptile, or bird.
- (botany) A slender appendage or process, formed like a claw, such as the base of petals of the pink.
verb
noun
- a grasping structure on the limb of a crustacean or other arthropods
- a young person of either sex
- (historical) A boy working as a navvies' assistant.
- (usually in the plural) Any of various devices (as pincers) for nipping.
- The claws of a crab or lobster.
- (Canada, slang, Newfoundland) A mosquito.
- A young bluefish.
- One of a pair of automatically locking handcuffs.
- A fish, the cunner.
- (Australia) A child aged from 5 to 13 in the Australian surf life-saving clubs.
- One who, or that which, nips.
- (historical) One of the gloves or mittens worn by fishermen to protect their hands from cold and abrasion.
- (British, informal) A child.
verb
noun
adj
noun
- cephalopods having eight short tentacles plus two long ones
- crustaceans characteristically having five pairs of locomotor appendages each joined to a segment of the thorax
- (zoology) Any crustacean of the order Decapoda, such as crabs or lobsters.
- (zoology) Any of various animals having ten legs or similar appendages, especially mollusks such as squid and cuttlefish.
- (rail transport) A nickname for either the 0-10-0 or 2-10-0 train configurations.
adj
noun
- The oral tip surrounded by tentacles in hydrozoan cnidarians.
- The barbed attachment structure associated with the mouthparts of parasitic arachnids (e.g. ticks);
- The ventral mouthpart plate in trilobites;
- (anatomy) Any of certain mouth appendages of some insects, arachnids, crustaceans, and hydrozoa; in particular:
noun
- The shell of such a mollusk.
- A kiln for drying hops; an oast.
- (figurative, in the plural) Chiefly in cockles of someone's heart: a person's innermost feelings.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) A £10 note; a tenner.
- (directly from French coquille) A wrinkle, pucker
- Any of various edible European bivalve mollusks, of the family Cardiidae, having heart-shaped shells.
- The fire chamber of a furnace.
- Any of several field weeds, such as the common corncockle (Agrostemma githago) and darnel ryegrass (Lolium temulentum).
- The dome of a heating furnace.
- (by extension) A defect in sheepskin; firm dark nodules caused by the bites of keds on live sheep
- (Cornwall, mining) The mineral black tourmaline or schorl.
- common edible, burrowing European bivalve mollusk that has a strong, rounded shell with radiating ribs
- common edible European bivalve
verb
adj
adj
noun
- biradially symmetrical hermaphroditic solitary marine animals resembling jellyfishes having for locomotion eight rows of cilia arranged like teeth in a comb
- Any of various marine animals of the phylum Ctenophora, having lucent, mucilaginous bodies bearing eight rows of comblike cilia used for swimming.
noun
- something that acts like a tentacle in its ability to grasp and hold
- any of various elongated tactile or prehensile flexible organs that occur on the head or near the mouth in many animals; used for feeling or grasping or locomotion
- (botany) One of the glandular hairs on the leaves of certain insectivorous plants.
- (UK, military, historical) An officer employed to drive out to troops and transmit back requests for support via a special radio link.
- (figurative) Something like a zoological limb.
- (zoology) An elongated, boneless, flexible organ or limb of some animals, such as the octopus and squid.
- (figurative) An insidious reach or influence.
verb
noun
- bottom-living cephalopod having a soft oval body with eight long tentacles
- tentacles of octopus prepared as food
- (countable, strictly) A mollusc from genus Octopus.
- (uncountable) The flesh of these marine molluscs eaten as food.
- (American football, informal) An instance of a player scoring a touchdown immediately followed by a successful two-point conversion, resulting in a total score of eight points.
- (countable, loosely) Any of several marine molluscs of the order Octopoda, having no internal or external protective shell or bone (unlike the nautilus, squid and cuttlefish) and eight arms each covered with suckers.
- (countable) An organization that has many powerful branches controlled from the centre.
- (countable, diving) A safety device allowing divers to share an air supply in an emergency.
verb
- To plug a large number of devices into a single electric outlet.
- To hunt and catch octopuses.
- (by extension) To grow in use vastly beyond what was originally intended.
- To spread out in long arms or legs in many directions.
- To put (or attempt to put) one's fingers, hands or arms in many things or places at roughly the same time.
- To behave like an octopus.
noun
adj
noun
- A similar appendage of a cetacean or other marine animal.
- A similar structure protruding from a projectile, used to help keep it on course.
- (UK, formerly Australia, slang) a five-pound (£5) note; the sum of five pounds.
- (surfing) A similar structure on the bottom of a surfboard, used to help steer it.
- (nautical) The conning tower of a submarine.
- An extending part on a surface of a radiator, engine, heatsink, etc., used to facilitate cooling.
- A thin, rigid component of an aircraft, extending from the fuselage and used to stabilise and steer the aircraft.
- A hairstyle, resembling the fin of a fish, in which the hair is combed and set into a vertical ridge along the top of the head from about the crown to the forehead.
- A sharp raised edge (generally in concrete) capable of damaging a roof membrane or vapor retarder.
- (ichthyology, zootomy) One of the appendages of a fish, used to propel itself and to manoeuvre/maneuver.
- A device worn by divers and swimmers on their feet.
- a stabilizer on a ship that resembles the fin of a fish
- one of a set of parallel slats in a door or window to admit air and reject rain
- the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one
- organ of locomotion and balance in fishes and some other aquatic animals
- one of a pair of decorations projecting above the rear fenders of an automobile
- a shoe for swimming; the paddle-like front is an aid in swimming (especially underwater)
verb
- (intransitive) (Of a fish) to swim with the dorsal fin above the surface of the water.
- (intransitive) To swim in the manner of a fish.
- (transitive) To provide (a motor vehicle etc) with fins.
- (transitive) To cut the fins from a fish, shark, etc.
- propel oneself through the water in a finning motion
- show the fins above the water while swimming
- equip (a car) with fins
noun
- minute freshwater crustacean having a round body enclosed in a transparent shell; moves about like a flea by means of hairy branched antennae
- minute free-swimming freshwater copepod having a large median eye and pear-shaped body and long antennae used in swimming; important in some food chains and as intermediate hosts of parasitic worms that affect man e.g. Guinea worms
- Any of various aquatic crustacea of the order Diplostraca, characterised by their jumping or jerky mode of swimming.
noun
- The main body of a jellyfish, excluding the tentacles.
- (figurative) Anything that provides similar protection.
- (figurative) Anything that provides similar overarching coverage of a range of concepts, purposes, groups, etc.
- A cloth-covered frame used for protection against rain or sun.
- (ice hockey) A strategy in which five players in the offensive zone form an umbrella-shaped formation around the opposition's goal net.
- (photography, television) An umbrella-shaped reflector with a white or silvery inner surface, used to diffuse a nearby light.
- having the function of uniting a group of similar things
- a lightweight handheld collapsible canopy
- a formation of military planes maintained over ground operations or targets
verb
adj
noun
adj
noun
- a grasping structure on the limb of a crustacean or other arthropods
- sharp curved horny process on the toe of a bird or some mammals or reptiles
- a bird's foot
- a mechanical device that is curved or bent to suspend or hold or pull something
- (colloquial) A human fingernail, particularly one extending well beyond the fingertip.
- A foot equipped with such.
- (graph theory) A tree with one internal vertex and three leaves.
- The pincer (chela) of a crustacean or other arthropod.
- A mechanical device resembling a claw, used for gripping or lifting.
- (juggling) The act of catching a ball overhand.
- A curved, pointed, horny projection on each digit of the foot of a mammal, reptile, or bird.
- (botany) A slender appendage or process, formed like a claw, such as the base of petals of the pink.
verb
noun
- a grasping structure on the limb of a crustacean or other arthropods
- a young person of either sex
- (historical) A boy working as a navvies' assistant.
- (usually in the plural) Any of various devices (as pincers) for nipping.
- The claws of a crab or lobster.
- (Canada, slang, Newfoundland) A mosquito.
- A young bluefish.
- One of a pair of automatically locking handcuffs.
- A fish, the cunner.
- (Australia) A child aged from 5 to 13 in the Australian surf life-saving clubs.
- One who, or that which, nips.
- (historical) One of the gloves or mittens worn by fishermen to protect their hands from cold and abrasion.
- (British, informal) A child.
verb
noun
adj
noun
- cephalopods having eight short tentacles plus two long ones
- crustaceans characteristically having five pairs of locomotor appendages each joined to a segment of the thorax
- (zoology) Any crustacean of the order Decapoda, such as crabs or lobsters.
- (zoology) Any of various animals having ten legs or similar appendages, especially mollusks such as squid and cuttlefish.
- (rail transport) A nickname for either the 0-10-0 or 2-10-0 train configurations.
adj
noun
- The oral tip surrounded by tentacles in hydrozoan cnidarians.
- The barbed attachment structure associated with the mouthparts of parasitic arachnids (e.g. ticks);
- The ventral mouthpart plate in trilobites;
- (anatomy) Any of certain mouth appendages of some insects, arachnids, crustaceans, and hydrozoa; in particular:
noun
- The shell of such a mollusk.
- A kiln for drying hops; an oast.
- (figurative, in the plural) Chiefly in cockles of someone's heart: a person's innermost feelings.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) A £10 note; a tenner.
- (directly from French coquille) A wrinkle, pucker
- Any of various edible European bivalve mollusks, of the family Cardiidae, having heart-shaped shells.
- The fire chamber of a furnace.
- Any of several field weeds, such as the common corncockle (Agrostemma githago) and darnel ryegrass (Lolium temulentum).
- The dome of a heating furnace.
- (by extension) A defect in sheepskin; firm dark nodules caused by the bites of keds on live sheep
- (Cornwall, mining) The mineral black tourmaline or schorl.
- common edible, burrowing European bivalve mollusk that has a strong, rounded shell with radiating ribs
- common edible European bivalve
verb
noun
- biradially symmetrical hermaphroditic solitary marine animals resembling jellyfishes having for locomotion eight rows of cilia arranged like teeth in a comb
- Any of various marine animals of the phylum Ctenophora, having lucent, mucilaginous bodies bearing eight rows of comblike cilia used for swimming.
noun
- something that acts like a tentacle in its ability to grasp and hold
- any of various elongated tactile or prehensile flexible organs that occur on the head or near the mouth in many animals; used for feeling or grasping or locomotion
- (botany) One of the glandular hairs on the leaves of certain insectivorous plants.
- (UK, military, historical) An officer employed to drive out to troops and transmit back requests for support via a special radio link.
- (figurative) Something like a zoological limb.
- (zoology) An elongated, boneless, flexible organ or limb of some animals, such as the octopus and squid.
- (figurative) An insidious reach or influence.
verb
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