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
There were costume changes and choreographed dance numbers, even an intro where a moving tentacle flailed halfway out of her mouth.
From Salon • Apr. 16, 2025
Her work includes creating a removable extra thumb and a tentacle arm.
From BBC • Sep. 19, 2024
At about the size of a pinkie nail, the jellyfish species Cladonema can regenerate an amputated tentacle in two to three days -- but how?
From Science Daily • Dec. 22, 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
Vocabulary lists containing tentacle
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