Zool. [a. F. tentacule, ad. mod.L. TENTACULUM: see -CULE.] TENTACLE. Also in Comb. as tentacule-like adj.

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1835–6.  Todd’s Cycl. Anat., I. 37/1. Very extensile tentacule-like cirri.

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1851.  Richardson, Geol., viii. (1855), 216. The mouth … is surrounded with numerous filaments or tentacules … furnished with vibratile cilia.

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1870.  P. M. Duncan, Transform. Insects (1882), 77. It suddenly pokes out a spotted tentacule.

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