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Tentacle vs Vestlet - What's the difference?

tentacle | vestlet |

As nouns the difference between tentacle and vestlet

is that tentacle is an elongated, boneless, flexible organ or limb of some animals, such as the octopus and squid while vestlet is a small vest.

tentacle

Noun

(en noun)
  • An elongated, boneless, flexible organ or limb of some animals, such as the octopus and squid.
  • * 1873, , 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
  • With one blow of the axe, Captain Nemo cut this formidable tentacle , that slid wriggling down the ladder.
  • * 1897,
  • The body was small, but fitted with two bunches of prehensile organs, like long tentacles , immediately under the mouth.
  • * 1936,
  • Surmounting this head were four slender grey stalks bearing flower-like appendages, whilst from its nether side dangled eight greenish antennae or tentacles .

    Derived terms

    * tentacular

    vestlet

    English

    (wikipedia vestlet) (Cerianthus) (Cerianthidae)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A small vest.
  • (zoology) Any of several species of actinian of the genus , with a long, smooth, tapering body and two separate circles of tentacles around the mouth.
  • (Webster 1913)