Talk:Tentacle

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[edit] Octopodes, octopuses, octopi

The plural of Octopus is Octopodes:

What are the plurals of Octopus, Hippopotamus, Syllabus?

But that's not what the article says. They only mention octopodes as a way of explaining why octopi is not the correct plural, octopuses is. --Michael Geary 23:52, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Star Wars?

Why is Star Wars listed under "Tentacles in cultural context"? --Goobergunch|[[User talk:Goobergunch|?]] 07:19, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

There needs to be a clear definition distinguishing arms from tentacles. Without this definition, what does it even mean to say that an octopus has arms, not tentacles? Please someone enlighten me.

[edit] Mechanical tentacles

In war of the worlds the huge tripod-thingies use tentacles to capture humans. In the matrix, some of the robots have tentacles attached to them. Could sometone mention these artificial tentacles? T.Neo (talk) 19:28, 2 January 2008 (UTC)