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‖ tentaculum|tɛnˈtækjʊləm|
Pl. -a.
[mod. L. tentācul-um, f. tentā-re = temptāre to feel, try; cf. tentacle, tentacule, and see -cule.]
A feeler; = tentacle.
1752J. Hill Hist. Anim. 100 The upper lip is prominent beyond the rest of the mouth, and has two tentacula. 1804Shaw Gen. Zool. V. ii. 360 From each side springs a long and flexible tentaculum or feeler, of a flattened shape. 1880Bastian Brain iv. 71 This ganglion receives branches from the tentacula guarding the orifice of the oral funnel.
fig.1867Bagehot Eng. Constit. ix. (1882) 275 The political characteristic of the early Greeks, and of the early Romans, too, is that out of the tentacula of a monarchy they developed the organs of a republic. 1893McCarthy Dictator xxiv, He had seen only too clearly which way her love was stretching its tentacula. |