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Tentacle logo #10101) Animal anatomy 2) Arm of a sort 3) Arm of an octopus 4) Arm of the sea 5) Arm on a squid 6) Cuttlefish feature 7) Feeler 8) Feeler, of a sort 9) Grasp 10) Grip 11) Jellyfish appendage 12) Jellyfish dangler 13) Octopus appendage 14) Octopus arm 15) Octopus feeler 16) One may be suckered 17) One of eight, for some
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Tentacle

Tentacle logo #10101) Antennal 2) Antennary 3) Arm 4) Barbel 5) Feeler
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Tentacle

Tentacle logo #21000 In zoology, a tentacle is a flexible, mobile, elongated organ present in some species of animals, most of them invertebrates. In animal anatomy tentacles usually occur in one or more pairs. Anatomically, the tentacles of animals work mainly like muscular hydrostats. Most forms of tentacles are used for grasping and feeding. Many are sensory organs...
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Tentacle

Tentacle logo #21000[botany] In botany, tentacles are glandular hairs on the leaves of some species of insectivorous plants such as Drosera (sundews). Tentacles are different from organs such as the tendrils of climbing plants. In carnivorous plants such as sundews, the tentacles are the stalked glands of the upper surface of the leaves. They are hairlike proj...
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Tentacle

Tentacle logo #22590a sensitive, glandular hair
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Tentacle logo #21002• (n.) A more or less elongated process or organ, simple or branched, proceeding from the head or cephalic region of invertebrate animals, being either an organ of sense, prehension, or motion.
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tentacle logo #21003(from the article `chemoreception`) ...with certainty, are thought to be variously branched free nerve endings. Body regions known to be most sensitive to chemicals have high ... ...minute hairlike projections of cell membranes that, by concerted beating in wave rhythm, set up water currents or physically move food ... [11 related ar...
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tentacle logo #20973<zoology> A more or less elongated process or organ, simple or branched, proceeding from the head or cephalic region of invertebrate animals, being either an organ of sense, prehension, or motion. ... <zoology> Tentacle sheath, a sheathlike structure around the base of the tentacles of many mollusks. ... Origin: NL. Tentaculum, from L. ...
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tentacle

tentacle logo #21001(ten´tә-kәl) a slender, whiplike appendage in animals that may function in prehension and feeding or as a sense organ.
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Tentacle

Tentacle logo #20972Ten'ta·cle noun [ New Latin tentaculum , from Latin tentare to handle, feel: confer French tentacule . See Tempt .] (Zoology) A more or less elongated process or organ, simple or branched, proceeding from the head or cephalic region of invertebrate animals, being eit...
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tentacle logo #21219Type: Term Pronunciation: ten′tă-kĕl Definitions: 1. A slender process for feeling, prehension, or locomotion in invertebrates.
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Tentacle

Tentacle logo #22588a sensitive, glandular hair
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tentacle

tentacle logo #20400[n] - something that acts like a tentacle in its ability to grasp 2. [n] - any of various elongated tactile or prehensile flexible organs that occur on the head or near the mouth in many animals used for feeling or grasping or locomotion
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tentacle logo #21009tentacle 1. In zoology, any of various slender, flexible processes or appendages in animals; especially, invertebrates, that serve as organs of touch, prehension, etc.; a feeler. 2. An elongated flexible unsegmented extension, as one of those surrounding the mouth or oral cavity of the squid, used for feeling, grasping, or locomotion. 3. One of t...
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tentacle logo #21009tentacle, tentacled, tentacular 1. A long flexible organ around the mouth or on the head of some animals; especially, invertebrates such as squid, used in holding, grasping, feeling, or moving. 2. A sticky glandular hairy projection from the leaf of an insect-eating plant; such as, the sundew, whose secretions trap and digest prey. 3. Something t...
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tentacle logo #20974 noun any of various elongated tactile or prehensile flexible organs that occur on the head or near the mouth in many animals; used for feeling or grasping or locomotion
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tentacle logo #23665[Wise words] something with the ability to grasp and hold
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tentacle logo #23907a flexible appendage adapted for grasping or feeling
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