tentacle

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Our enterprising Gravedigger, a true woman of science, engineers a lizard elixir and regenerates the finger into a long tentacle that eventually demands a body.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2026

Her work includes creating a removable extra thumb and a tentacle arm.

From BBC • Sep. 19, 2024

"Repair-specific proliferative cells mainly contribute to the epithelium -- the thin outer layer -- of the newly formed tentacle."

From Science Daily • Dec. 22, 2023

Each tentacle also contains rows of suckers to help the octopus maintain its grip.

From Salon • Dec. 1, 2023

A tentacle whips toward him but misses, grasping one of his trailing pages instead, crumbling it.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman