tentaculocystn.
/tɛnˈtakjʊləʊˌsɪst/ Zoology.
One of the vesicular or cystic tentacles of a hydrozoan, representing a reduced and modified tentacle: see quots. Also tentaculicyst n. at tentaculi- comb. form .
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tentaculicyst1891
1880 E. R. Lankester in Nature 4 Mar. 414/1 What I have elsewhere termed ‘tentaculocysts’, modified tentacles which act as auditory organs and have often eye-spots on them as well.
1881 E. R. Lankester in Encycl. Brit. XII. 555/2 Combined visual and auditory organs in the form of modified tentacles (tentaculocysts).
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