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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tentacle \Ten"ta*cle\, n. [NL. tentaculum, from L. tentare to
handle, feel: cf F. tentacule. See {Tempt}.] (Zo["o]l.)
A more or less elongated process or organ, simple or
branched, proceeding from the head or cephalic region of
invertebrate animals, being either an organ of sense
prehension, or motion.
{Tentacle sheath} (Zo["o]l.), a sheathlike structure around
the base of the tentacles of many mollusks.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
tentacle
n 1: something that acts like a tentacle in its ability to grasp;
"caught in the tentacles of organized crime"
2: any of various elongated tactile or prehensile flexible
organs that occur on the head or near the mouth in many
animals used for feeling or grasping or locomotion
From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 2000) [jargon]:
tentacle n. A covert {pseudo}, sense 1. An artificial
identity created in cyberspace for nefarious and deceptive purposes.
The implication is that a single person may have multiple tentacles. This
term was originally floated in some paranoid ravings on the cypherpunks
list (see {cypherpunk}), and adopted in a spirit of irony by other saner
members. It has since shown up used seriously, in the documentation for
some remailer software, and is now (1994) widely recognized on the net.
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