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Definition of Tentaculata
1. Noun. Ctenophores have retractile tentacles.
Group relationships: Ctenophora, Phylum Ctenophora
Member holonyms: Cydippea, Cydippida, Cydippidea, Order Cydippea, Order Cydippida, Order Cydippidea, Order Platyctenea, Platyctenea, Cestida, Order Cestida, Lobata, Order Lobata
Generic synonyms: Class
Definition of Tentaculata
1. n. pl. A division of Ctenophora including those which have two long tentacles.
Medical Definition of Tentaculata
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Tentaculata
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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