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

"Together, resident stem cells and repair-specific proliferative cells allow rapid regeneration of the functional tentacle within a few days," Nakajima said, noting that jellyfish use their tentacles to hunt and feed.

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

Just a bunch of hand mirrors resting on top of a bunch of tentacle stumps that shuffled around the corner together, out of sight.

From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles