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• The infundibulate Bryozoa have a circular arrangement of the tentacles upon the disk.From the entry infundibulate
• The squid wrapped its slithy tentacles around its prey.From the entry slithy
• I run to shore, trying to keep the tentacles off me, but it's too big and strong.2018, TW Neal, Freckled: A Memoir of Growing up Wild in Hawaii. From the entry sucker
• The conical hypostome was encircled by 4–14 filiform amphicoronate tentacles with nematocysts.2016 February 4, “Green Fluorescence of Cytaeis Hydroids Living in Association with Nassarius Gastropods in the Red Sea”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry amphicoronate
• Six of the Krabben's massive tentacles had wrapped themselves around the mizzensail.2015, J. L. Ficks, J. E. Dugue, The Weeping Grounds. From the entry mizzensail
• An apish creature shambled with octopoid tentacles upon its shoulders; a human shape bore spider arms.2014, Karl Edward Wagner, Bloodstone, Gateway, →ISBN. From the entry octopoid
• Still the thing clutched him, tentacles wrapping his arm and snaking around his neck.2013 April, Chris A. Jackson, “A Surprise Engagement”, in Pirate’s Honor (Pathfinder Tales), Paizo, →ISBN, pages 113–114. From the entry cecaelia
• It flew up using its tentacles and drifted down onto Ryan's snout.2010, A. J. Traxler, Echoes of the Shadows. From the entry squidling
• It waved around a tentacle and formed a bubble that drifted away.2010, A. J. Traxler, Echoes of the Shadows. From the entry squidling
• In fact, almost none of the jetters were observed swimming with their tentacles extended.2003, Sean P Colin, John H Costello, Eric Klos, “In situ swimming and feeding behavior of eight co-occurring hydromedusae”, in Marine…. From the entry jetter
• Spaghetti-like tentacles extend over the substrate to gather detritus and associated microfauna.2001, Julian Sprung, Invertebrates: A Quick Reference Guide, page 142. From the entry spaghettilike
• Its nagging, prehensile tentacles project into every level of human existence.1963, Martin Luther King, Jr., “The Death of Evil upon the Seashore”, in Strength to Love, New York: Pocket Books, published 1964, →OCLC…. From the entry evil
• They have a flexible bulbous body without a shell and eight long sucker-bearing tentacles.1951, Tracy I. Storer, General Zoology, New York, N.Y.; Toronto, ON; London: McGraw Hill, page 435. From the entry devilfish
• The tentacles, either singly or fused, become the four rhopaloids.2020, Fatma El-Bawab, Invertebrate Embryology and Reproduction, page 241. From the entry rhopaloid
• In the hydromedusa Clytia hemisphaerica, cell division and cnidogenesis is primarily restricted to interstitial stem cells in the proximal tentacle bulbs.2015 August 5, “Structural and Developmental Disparity in the Tentacles of the Moon Jellyfish Aurelia sp . 1”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry cnidogenesis
• Recently antibutyrylcholinestrasic activity was detected in the crude venom extracted from the tentacle material of the Mediterranean jellyfish Pelagia noctiluca .2015 June 18, Mahdokht Jouiaei et al., “Ancient Venom Systems: A Review on Cnidaria Toxins”, in Toxins, volume 7, →DOI. From the entry antibutyrylcholinestrasic
• The purple tentacle is having another crack at taking over the planet, and this time, he’ll be doing it in HD-o-vision.2015 Christmas, PlayStation Official Magazine - UK, number 117, page 014. From the entry PlayStationer
• It's a Dali-esque frightmare of liquescent forms, a pseudo-organic samplescape congested with scrofulous sound tentacles and slithery slimeshapes.2013, Simon Reynolds, Generation Ecstasy: Into the World of Techno and Rave Culture, →ISBN. From the entry frightmare
• A one-eyed “quadrapus” with 12-foot tentacles, a giant centipede named Winston, a “Treeture” that likes to eat people and more!2013 April 17, Robert Hull, “Giant Moving Creatures To Invade U.Va. on Saturday”, in UVAToday, archived from the original on 06 Jul 2024. From the entry treeture
• It only makes up for the lack of spathic content if the tentacles are, ahem, 'Centaurian' in nature.2005 June 29, David McMillan, “Re: Sea Wasp is not happy with us”, in rec.arts.sf.written (Usenet). From the entry spathic
• It wrapped its sinister tentacles around all but the bunny.1996 January 22, Randal Keith Milholland, “SG: Gomi #3-"The Death of Johnny Figment" Part III (2/2)”, in bit.listserv.superguy (Usenet). From the entry akuma
• Tentacles lashed out, grasping at the prospective meal.1989, Juanita Coulson, Legacy of earth, Del Rey, →ISBN. From the entry octopoid
• And the third tentacle ringleted his other ankle.1980, Stephen King, The Mist, Viking Press. From the entry ringlet
• The Horror had besides eight or ten long tentacles studded with suckers like those of the giant squid or devil-fish.1913, “The Deep-Sea Kraken”, in Alfred Holman, editor, The Argonaut, volume 72, page 302. From the entry devilfish
• Some individuals measure seven and a half feet across the disk and have tentacles more than one hundred feet long.1903, Augusta Foote Arnold, The Sea-beach at Ebb-tide: A Guide to the Study of the Seaweeds and the Lower Animal Life Found Between…. From the entry sea blubber
• The trail of the lawyer vine (CALAMUS OBSTRUENS), with its leaf sheath and long tentacles bristling with incurved hooks, is over it all.2022, E. J. Banfield, The Confessions of a Beachcomber. From the entry lawyer
• Phospholipase A 2 (PLA 2) activity has been detected in the homogenized tentacles and acontia of cnidarians including subphylums Anthozoa, Schyphozoa, Hydrozoa and Cubozoa.2015 June 18, Mahdokht Jouiaei et al., “Ancient Venom Systems: A Review on Cnidaria Toxins”, in Toxins, volume 7, →DOI. From the entry subphylums
• At the hypostomal boundary these stripes are aligned with the positions of tentacle insertion (Fig 18B ), hence are positioned between the hypostomal taeniolae.2015 September 12, “Nutrient Distribution and Absorption in the Colonial Hydroid Podocoryna carnea Is Sequentially Diffusive and…. From the entry hypostomal
• It took several minutes and a few more of its suckerish tentacles to complete the search, but at last the Kraken found a closed clamshell.2012, C H Garbutt, Black Pool. From the entry suckerish
• For 15 years Marley has been singing of a benighted people caught up in the octopal tentacles of an inept and often corrupt government.2009, Hank Bordowitz, Every Little Thing Gonna Be Alright: The Bob Marley Reader, Da Capo Press, →ISBN. From the entry octopal
• A little poking around in the shrubbery should reveal its science fiction-like body, resembling slimy scarlet tentacles emerging from a half-buried egg.2006 October 21, Peter Marren, “Day of the fungi”, in The Daily Telegraph, page 15. From the entry devil's fingers
• There are gooseberrylike comb jellies, armed with grasping tentacles, and there are the shrimplike euphausiids that strain food from the water with their bristly appendages.2003, Rachel Carson, The sea around us. From the entry gooseberrylike
• Then his body seemed to turn into rubber; it was as if his joints forgot that they existed, and his limbs turned into octopusine tentacles.1996, Rohit Manchanda, editors, In the Light of the Black Sun, page 148. From the entry octopusine
• True medusa tentacles occur later in development through the distal and lateral expansion of eight tongue-like processes on the bell’s oral surface, which multifurcate into hundreds of small tentacles.2015 August 5, “Structural and Developmental Disparity in the Tentacles of the Moon Jellyfish Aurelia sp . 1”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry multifurcate
• Mademoiselle halted momentarily to marvel at a cecaelia rising furiously from the waves being whipped into foam by her tentacles and brandishing a trident high above.2014 June, Christian Vago, The Rotted Garden (The Mademoiselle de Commercy Series; volume one), FriesenPress, →ISBN, page 441. From the entry cecaelia
• There were a few unusual creatures, like the octopodian creature that slithered along upright on tentacles and regarded her with bulbous eyes that had stars for pupils.2007, Amia Kettier, Awakening, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 144. From the entry octopodian
• Tentacles are inserted rhythmically into the mouth as a result of the co-ordinated actions of the aquapharyngeal complex which is essentially similar in structure in all holothurians (Fig. 1).2003 September 2, Margaret Barnes, R N Gibson, R. N. Gibson, Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review: Volume 38: An Annual…. From the entry aquapharyngeal
• What it always is, however, is repulsive almost beyond words, a sickening, monstrously contorted afterbirth of a blob, complete with linguinilike prying tentacles, which it uses to reproduce itself.1982, California, volume 7, numbers 5–8, page 99. From the entry linguinilike
• A pseudopod of blackness elongated itself from the central mass and like a great tentacle clutched the corpse-like being, dragged it back to the pit and over the brink.1937, Henry Kuttner, The Salem Horror. From the entry pseudopod

Meaning of tentacle

1. noun An elongated, boneless, flexible organ or limb of some animals, such as the octopus and squid.
2. noun One of the glandular hairs on the leaves of certain insectivorous plants.
3. noun An insidious reach or influence.

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How do you use tentacle in a sentence?

Tentacle is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The infundibulate Bryozoa have a circular arrangement of the tentacles upon the disk.”

What is a short sentence with tentacle?

“the tentacles of the criminal underworld”

What does tentacle mean?

Tentacle means an elongated, boneless, flexible organ or limb of some animals, such as the octopus and squid.