Combining form of mod.L. TENTACULUM, used in zoological terms. Tentaculibranchiate [L. branchiæ gills], a. of or pertaining to the Tentaculibranchia, i.e., the Bryozoa or Polyzoa, regarded (by Lankester, 1877) as a class of the branch Lipocephala of the phylum Mollusca; sb. a member of this class. Tentaculicyst = TENTACULOCYST; hence Tentaculicystic a. Tentaculiform a., having the form or appearance of a tentacle. Tentaculigerous a. [-GEROUS], = next.

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1902.  Cassell’s Encycl. Dict., Suppl., *Tentaculibranchiate.

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1891.  Cent. Dict., *Tentaculicyst.

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1837.  Penny Cycl., IX. 258/1. It … gives exit to *tentaculiform cirrhi.

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1880.  W. S. Kent, Infusoria, I. 396. A prolonged tentaculiform appendage.

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1877.  Huxley, Anat. Inv. Anim., ii. 174. m. *tentaculigerous canal.

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