How to Spell tentacle
tentacle
tentacle - noun
- Any of various elongate flexible usually tactile or prehensile processes borne by invertebrate animals chiefly on the head or about the mouth
Source: Merriam-Webster Dictionary API
Etymology
Borrowed from New Latin {it}tentāculum,{/it} from Latin {it}temptāre, tentāre{/it} "to feel, test, examine" + {it}-culum,{/it} suffix of instrument (going back to Indo-European {it}*-tlom{/it}) {ma}{mat|tempt|}{/ma}