Meanings
- not comparableAdorned with tentacles.
With a few bold strokes of the pen he had rendered a titan with its streamlined body, immense mouth in front, and betentacled fins at the rear.
1998, Jerry Oltion, Where Sea Meets Sky, →ISBN, page 2082 more examples
What was that story about a human ambassador who went into space to learn the language of a huge betentacled alien, and finally learned it but gained tentacles in the bargain?
1997 April 16, Ben Ostrowsky, “Re: How Would Telepathy Work? (was: Black and Blue)”, in alt.fan.cecil-adams (Usenet)With a tangle of wild, grey dreadlocks splashing out across his face as he bounces and sways like a man at sea, Billy Ocean does look an awful lot like the betentacled character from the Pirates of the Caribbean films.
2009 April 8, Helen Brown, “Billy Ocean interview”, in The Telegraph
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betentacled. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/betentacled
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