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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 ten·ta·cle /ˈtɛntɪkəl/
 觸鬚,觸手,觸角

From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Medical Dictionary 英漢醫學字典

 ten·ta·cle /ˈtɛntɪkəl/ 名詞
 觸手,觸器,觸毛

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Ten·ta·cle n.  Zool. 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 Zool., a sheathlike structure around the base of the tentacles of many mollusks.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 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