a. (sb.) Zool. [f. as prec. + -ATE2.]

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  1.  Furnished with tentacles or tentaculiform appendages; rarely = TENTACULIFORM.

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1846.  Dana, Zooph. (1848), 320. Polyps obsolescently tentaculate.

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1877.  Huxley, Anat. Inv. Anim., ii. 109. In the Acinetae, the tentaculate stage is the more permanent, the ciliated stage transitory.

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  2.  Of or pertaining to the Tentaculata, or stalked Echinoderms. b. sb. A member of the Tentaculata; a pelmatozoan.

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