Characteristic of having numerous elongated and flexible organs that occur on the head or near the mouth which are used for feeding, feeling, holding on to something, or locomotion (movement); such as, the octopus, squid, and the jellyfish: The multitentacular creature that most people are aware of is the octopus which has a bilaterally symmetrical body with a head and a pair of eyes on each side and tentacles that are arranged around its mouth for consuming food.

When an octopus moves in the water from one place to another, it is the rear part of the body that goes first as its multitentacular body parts are used to propel it around.