English-French translations for tentacle

tentaculeLes Eurocrates y voient des possibilités d'étendre leurs tentacules de pouvoir. Eurocrats see them as opportunities to extend their tentacles of power. Les tentacules terroristes de Téhéran s’étendent jusque dans le sud de son voisin irakien. Teheran's terrorist tentacles even reach as far as the south of its neighbour, Iraq. Le système judiciaire et la police, infectés par le cancer de la corruption, constituent les principaux tentacules de la "pieuvre" de la mafia. The main tentacles of the mafia 'octopus' are the justice system and police, which are blighted by the cancer of corruption.

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

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