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Definition of Tentacular
1. Adjective. Of or relating to or resembling tentacles.
Definition of Tentacular
1. a. Of or pertaining to a tentacle or tentacles.
Definition of Tentacular
1. Adjective. Of, or pertaining to, tentacles. ¹
2. Adjective. Resembling a tentacle or tentacles. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tentacular
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Tentacular
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Tentacular
Literary usage of Tentacular
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"Four pairs of ordinary non-retractile arms which are shorter than the body, and
ono pair of tentacular arms, situated between the third and fourth normal ..."
2. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine, Taylor and Francis (1850)
"Bud in third stage of development more highly magnified : a, tentacular disc ; 6,
... Side view of exserted tentacular apparatus much enlarged of ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... which surround» the large tentacular arma, and forma a protective chamber for
them. It la notched right and left so aa to be divided into two lobes, ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"Fins terminal; tentacular arms long; suckers with hooks. ... tentacular arms
long, not retractile; resisting apparatus well developed. ..."
5. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"tentacular branch, one of the branches of a tentacle in some II >t ... tentacular
canal, in crinoids, the central or common canal, which branches into the ..."
6. The Genera of Recent Mollusca: Arranged According to Their Organization by Henry Adams, Arthur Adams (1858)
"The animal does not invest the shell, and when observed crawling, the tentacular
lobes of the head- disk are reflexed upon the fore part of the body-whorl. ..."
7. A Student's Text-book of Zoology by Adam Sedgwick, Joseph Jackson Lister, Arthur Everett Shipley (1898)
"Body compressed in the stomach-plane: sub- tentacular ribs longer than the ...
Two aliform processes in the tentacular-plane at the aboral pole, ..."
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