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Tentacle. In zoology, a tentacle is a flexible, mobile, and elongated organ present in some species of animals, most of them invertebrates. In animal anatomy, tentacles usually occur in one or more pairs. Anatomically, the tentacles of animals work mainly like muscular hydrostats.
Tentacles: Directed by Ovidio G. Assonitis. With John Huston, Shelley Winters, Bo Hopkins, Henry Fonda. A mutated giant octopus wreaks havoc on a California seaside community.
Definition. When used in a zoological context, the term tentacle refers to a slender, elongated, flexible organ that grows near the mouth of an animal. Tentacles are most common in invertebrates, although they are present in some vertebrates as well.
Here’s how it works. Octopuses have arms, not tentacles.(Image credit: fjdelvalle via Getty Images) Octopuses are famous for their eight sucker-covered arms, whereas squids, from giant ...
1. : any of various elongate flexible usually tactile or prehensile processes borne by invertebrate animals chiefly on the head or about the mouth. 2. : something that resembles a tentacle especially in or as if in grasping or feeling out. corruption spreading its tentacles. 3. : a sensitive hair or emergence on a plant (such as the sundew)
Tentacles (Italian: Tentacoli) is a 1977 horror - thriller film directed by Ovidio G. Assonitis and starring John Huston, Shelley Winters, Bo Hopkins, Cesare Danova, Delia Boccardo and Henry Fonda. When numerous people go missing in a seaside resort town, a reporter discovers that a rampaging giant octopus is terrorizing the coast.
squid, any of more than 300 species of 10-armed cephalopods classified within the order Teuthoidea (or Teuthida) and found in both coastal and oceanic waters. Squids may be swift swimmers or part of the drifting sea life (plankton).
