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say it: TEN-tuh-kuhl
tentacle is a noun meaning "something that acts like a tentacle in its ability to grasp and hold". It carries 2 recorded senses.
something that acts like a tentacle in its ability to grasp and hold
“caught in the tentacles of organized crime”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for tentacle come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.