Definition of Tentacles

1. Noun. (plural of tentacle) ¹

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Definition of Tentacles

1. tentacle [n] - See also: tentacle

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tentacles

tent
tent-caterpillar moth
tent-fly
tent-maker
tent-makers
tent camping
tent caterpillar
tent flap
tent peg
tent stitch
tent wine
tentacle
tentacled
tentaclelike
tentacles (current term)
tentacula
tentacular
tentaculata
tentaculated
tentaculifera
tentaculiferous
tentaculiform
tentaculite
tentaculites
tentaculocyst
tentaculocysts
tentaculum
tentage
tentages

Literary usage of Tentacles

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"9), which form a dense tuft of filamente around the anterior extremity of the animal. _ Just below the circular crown of tentacles in ..."

2. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun (1902)
"But the leaves of the sun-dew are especially characterized by the movements performed by the tentacles in response to stimulation by animal matter. ..."

3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The tentacles carried by the great annular lobe are nineteen on each side, ... They are somewhat larger than the tentacles carried on the three inner lobes. ..."

4. A Manual of the Common Invertebrate Animals: Exclusive of Insects by Henry Sherring Pratt (1916)
"a, No oral tentacles or lobes present. 6, Two or 4 marginal tentacles. ... tentacles not in clusters. c, Marginal tentacles 2 or 4 ..."

5. Medusae of the World by Alfred Goldsborough Mayer (1910)
"S. With simple marginal tentacles which arise singly from bell-margin. One or all of the tentacles may be rudimentary or absent. ..."

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