Definition of Tentaculata

1. Noun. Ctenophores have retractile tentacles.


Definition of Tentaculata

1. n. pl. A division of Ctenophora including those which have two long tentacles.

Medical Definition of Tentaculata

1. A division of Ctenophora including those which have two long tentacles. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tentaculata

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

Literary usage of Tentaculata

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

1. A Manual of the Common Invertebrate Animals: Exclusive of Insects by Henry Sherring Pratt (1916)
"Key to the classes of Ctenophora: a, Either tentacles or oral lobes present 1. tentaculata u. Tentacles and oral lobes absent 2. NUDA CLASS 1. tentaculata. ..."

2. Life in Ponds and Streams by William S. Furneaux (1906)
"the larger—that of B. tentaculata—being half an inch in length, ... Bithynia Leachii, tentaculata ENLARGED stones and weeds in ditches and sluggish streams; ..."

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