tentacle

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim An elongated, boneless, flexible organ or limb of some animals, such as the octopus and squid.

   “With one blow of the axe, Captain Nemo cut this formidable tentacle, that slid wriggling down the ladder.”

2. isim One of the glandular hairs on the leaves of certain insectivorous plants.
3. isim An insidious reach or influence.

   “the tentacles of the criminal underworld”

4. isim Something like a zoological limb.
5. isim An officer employed to drive out to troops and transmit back requests for support via a special radio link.

   “A joint RAF/Army staffed Air Support Control (ASC) headquarters was established at each army corps and each armoured division, linked to the forward brigades by a 'tentacle' equipped with two-way wireless telegraphy.”

6. fiil To move like a tentacle