different between tentacle vs tenacle

English

Etymology

From New Latin tent?culum, from tent?. Doublet of tentaculum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?nt?k?l/, /?t?nt?k?l/

Noun

tentacle (plural tentacles)

1. An elongated, boneless, flexible organ or limb of some animals, such as the octopus and squid.
   • 1897, H. G. Wells, The Crystal Egg

     The body was small, but fitted with two bunches of prehensile organs, like long tentacles, immediately under the mouth.

   • 1936, H. P. Lovecraft, The Shadow Out of Time

     Surmounting this head were four slender grey stalks bearing flower-like appendages, whilst from its nether side dangled eight greenish antennae or tentacles.

2. (botany) One of the glandular hairs on the leaves of certain insectivorous plants.
3. (figuratively) An insidious reach or influence.

4. (Britain, military, historical) An officer employed to drive out to troops and transmit back requests for support via a special radio link.
   • 2013, Dr Ian Gooderson, Air Power at the Battlefront (page 26)

     A joint RAF/Army staffed Air Support Control (ASC) headquarters was established at each army corps and each armoured division, linked to the forward brigades by a 'tentacle' equipped with two-way wireless telegraphy.

Synonyms

• tentaculum

Derived terms

• tentacular

Translations

Anagrams

• ectental, electant

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /t?n?ta.kl?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ten?ta.kle/

Noun

tentacle m (plural tentacles)

1. tentacle

Related terms

• tentacular

Further reading

• “tentacle” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “tentacle” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “tentacle” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “tentacle” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

English

Etymology

From Latin tenaculum, from tenere (“to hold”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?n?k?l/

Noun

tenacle (plural tenacles)

1. (rare) A stalk or shoot by which a plant holds itself up, or by which climbing plants attach themselves to surfaces.
   • 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus (Folio Society 2007, p. 198)

     And Ivy divided from the root, we have observed to live some years, by the cirrous parts commonly conceived but as tenacles and holdfasts unto it.

Anagrams

• eltenac, latence