Tentacle vs Tongue

Tentacle [ ˈtɛn tə kəl ]

In zoology, a tentacle is a flexible, mobile, elongated organ present in some species of animals, most of them invertebrates. In animal anatomy, tentacles usually occur in one or more pairs. Anatomically, the tentacles of animals work mainly like muscular hydrostats. Most forms of tentacles are used for grasping and feeding. Many are sensory organs, variously receptive to touch, vision, or to the smell or taste of particular foods or threats. Examples of such tentacles are the eyestalks of various kinds of snails. Some kinds of tentacles have both sensory and manipulatory functions.

• Zoology.
• any of various slender, flexible processes or appendages in animals, especially invertebrates, that serve as organs of touch, prehension, etc.; feeler.
• Botany.
• a sensitive filament or process, as one of the glandular hairs of the sundew.
• any of various elongated flexible organs that occur near the mouth in many invertebrates and are used for feeding, grasping, etc
• any of the hairs on the leaf of an insectivorous plant that are used to capture prey
• something resembling a tentacle, esp in its ability to reach out or grasp
• An elongated, flexible, unsegmented extension, as one of those surrounding the mouth or oral cavity of the squid, used for feeling, grasping, or locomotion.
• A narrow, flexible, unjointed part extending from the body of certain animals, such as an octopus, jellyfish, or sea anemone. Tentacles are used for feeling, grasping, or moving.

Tongue [ tʌŋ ]

The tongue is a muscular organ in the mouth of a typical tetrapod. It manipulates food for mastication and swallowing as part of the digestive process, and is the primary organ of taste. The tongue's upper surface (dorsum) is covered by taste buds housed in numerous lingual papillae. It is sensitive and kept moist by saliva and is richly supplied with nerves and blood vessels. The tongue also serves as a natural means of cleaning the teeth. A major function of the tongue is the enabling of speech in humans and vocalization in other animals.

• Anatomy.
• the usually movable organ in the floor of the mouth in humans and most vertebrates, functioning in eating, in tasting, and, in humans, in speaking.
• Zoology.
• an analogous organ in invertebrate animals.
• the tongue of an animal, as an ox, beef, or sheep, used for food, often prepared by smoking or pickling.
• the human tongue as the organ of speech No tongue must ever tell the secret.
• the faculty or power of speech a sight no tongue can describe.
• speech or talk, especially mere glib or empty talk.
• manner or character of speech a flattering tongue.
• the language of a particular people, region, or nation the Hebrew tongue.

• arm
• feeler
• limb

• dialect
• voice
• argot
• articulation
• discourse
• expression
• idiom
• lingo
• parlance
• patois

• 1. The tentacles of satellite television are spreading even wider.
• 2. The company's tentacles spread from car manufacturing to railways.
• 3. Tentacles of fear closed around her body.
• 4. Each tentacle pore has one small pointed tentacle scale.
• 5. The second oral tentacle pore emerges superficially.
• 6. The tentacle pores are small with two tentacle scales.
• 7. The tentacle pores are small, each is armed with a small pointed tentacle scale.
• 8. The tentacle pores are relatively large armed with one rounded tentacle scale.
• 9. The tentacle pores are large with two large tentacle scales.
• 10. Where the consumed tentacle had rested a mist seemed to be congealing out of nothing as though the hydra was already replenishing itself.

• 1. Let not your tongue cut your throat. 
• 2. The tongue breaks bone, though itself has none. 
• 3. Better the foot slip than the tongue trip. 
• 4. A good tongue is a good weapon. 
• 5. Turn your tongue seven times before speaking. 
• 6. The tongue is boneless but it breaks bones. 
• 7. The tongue of idle persons is never idle. 
• 8. The head is recognized by the tongue. 
• 9. The tongue is not steel, yet it cuts. 
• 10. When the heart is full, the tongue will speak.