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
The mirror flipped like a tossed coin, and where cracked glass should’ve been there was a fat green tentacle, tapering down to a tip the width of a carrot and whipping about.
From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles
Vocabulary lists containing tentacle
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