English-Danish translations for tentacle

• Fangarm
  Og dette "hogra" drev efter kritiske algerieres mening de unge ind i muslimernes terroristiske fangarme. It is precisely this 'hogra' , according to critical Algerian minds, that drove their own young people into the terrorist tentacles of the fundamentalists.
  De afskyvækkende fangarme fra Ceausescus statsapparat må fjernes fuldstændig og erstattes med moderne støttestrukturer, som kan være til hjælp der, hvor det er mest påtrængt i det rumænske samfund. The inhibiting tentacles of Ceausescu's state apparatus need to be swept away and replaced with modern support structures which will help the most needy in Romanian society.

Definition of tentacle

• An elongated, boneless, flexible organ or limb of some animals, such as the octopus and squid
• One of the glandular hairs on the leaves of certain insectivorous plants

Examples

• the tentacles of the criminal underworld

Related words

• tentatively
• ostentatious
• tentative
• ostentation
• potentate
• attentat
• ostentatiously
• patentable
• patentability