tentaclen.
/ˈtɛntək(ə)l/ a. Zoology. A slender flexible process in animals, esp. invertebrates, serving as an organ of touch or feeling; = feeler n. 3, palp n.
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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > [noun] > feeler
feeler1665
tentaculum1752
tentacle1764
feel horn1770
tactor1817
antennule1826
tentacule1835
the world > animals > animal body > general parts > body and limbs > [noun] > limb > hand or tentacle
handa1382
tentacle1764
1764 A. P. Du Pont in Philos. Trans. 1763 (Royal Soc.) 53 58 The fingers, or tentacles, end in a deep blue.
1835 W. Kirby On Power of God in Creation of Animals I. v. 181 An infinity of cells..from which the tentacles issue to collect their food.
1857 J. G. Wood Common Objects Sea Shore v. 53 On the arms, legs, feet, or tentacles of the cuttles, are arranged rows of suckers.
1866 R. Tate Plain & Easy Acct. Mollusks Great Brit. iii. 47 The head [of a snail or slug] bears two long slender tentacles or horns.
1866 R. Owen On Anat. Vertebr. I. v. 411 Tentacles depend from the rostral prolongation of the Sturgeon, and the mandibular symphysis of the Cod.
b. Botany. Applied to a sensitive filament, as the viscous gland-tipped leaf-hairs of the Sundew.
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the world > plants > part of plant > leaf > [noun] > part or side of
backsidec1392
cut1563
purl1626
ambitient1657
unguicle1657
verge1704
sinus1753
pagina1832
blade1835
crenel1835
biforine1842
underleaf1873
tentacle1875
bullation1882
leaf skin1974
1875 C. Darwin Insectivorous Plants i. 5 A tentacle consists of a thin, straight, hair-like pedicel carrying a gland on the summit.
1879 J. Lubbock Sci. Lect. i. 4 In our Common Sundew..the rounded leaves are covered with glutinous glandular hairs or tentacles.
c. figurative. = feeler n. 3b.
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the world > physical sensation > touch and feeling > [noun] > something with which one feels or touches
tentaculum1752
feeler1796
tentacle1847
1847 T. De Quincey Secret Societies in Tait's Edinb. Mag. Aug. 513/2 This plot..stretched its horrid fangs, and threw out its forerunning feelers and tentacles into many nations.
1883 H. Drummond Nat. Law in Spiritual World (ed. 2) viii. 300 The soul.., waving its tentacles piteously in the empty air, feeling after God if so be that it may find Him.
1895 J. P. Mahaffy Empire of Ptolemies x Prepared to fall easily into the tentacles of the all-devouring Republic [Rome].
1901 Scotsman 7 Mar. 7/5 One of De Wet's tentacles had been stretched out to obscure the approach of Nesbitt's horse.
Compounds
C1. attributive and in other combinations, as tentacle-like adj.
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1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 683/2 Their tentacle-like arms [i.e. of Cirripeds] resemble the antennae of lobsters.
C2.
tentacle-feeder n. an invertebrate animal possessing tentacles to trap its food.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > bodies or parts > [noun] > limb or appendage > animal having tentacles
tentacle-feeder1953
1953 J. S. Huxley Evol. in Action iii. 73 Tentacle-feeders may either float free in the water or be attached to the bottom.
1963 R. P. Dales Annelids 15 The more familiar tentacle-feeders include the terebellids, which have a mass of extensile tentacles.
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tentacle-sheath n. the sheath-like structure surrounding the base of the tentacles of many molluscs.
Derivatives
tentacled adj. /ˈtɛntək(ə)ld/ furnished with or having tentacles.
/ˈtɛntək(ə)ld/ furnished with or having tentacles.ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > animal body > general parts > body and limbs > [adjective] > relating to limbs > relating to a tentacle > having tentacles
tentaculated1804
tentaculiferousa1832
tentaculate1846
tentacled1857
tentaculigerous1877
1857 P. H. Gosse Omphalos 119 Every individual cell,..inhabited by its tentacled Hydra, has..budded out from a branch.
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