a. [f. mod.L. TENTACULUM + -(I)FEROUS.] Bearing tentacles: said of an animal or organ; spec. of or pertaining to the Tentaculifera or Acinetaria, a division of the Plegepod Protozoa; sometimes, pertaining to the Tentaculifera or Glossophora, among Mollusca.
1830. J. E. Gray, in Encycl. Metrop. (1845), XXI. 592/1. Its edge divided into four or eight diverging, tentaculiferous lobes.
1835. Kirby, Hab. & Inst. Anim., I. v. 167. The tentaculiferous mouths of the polypes.
1880. W. S. Kent (title), A Manual of the Infusoria: including a Description of all known Flagellate, Ciliate, and Tentaculiferous Protozoa. Ibid. (1883), in Nature, 8 March, 433/1. In other tentaculiferous animals, such as a sea-anemone, tubiculous annelid, or cuttlefish.
1885. E. R. Lankester, in Encycl. Brit., XIX. 431/2. The tentaculiferous ‘arms’ of the Brachiopoda.
