Noun:

लता-तंतु, स्पर्श-सूत्र, मूंछ,

tentacles's Usage Examples:

In this order the radial canals are represented only by wide gastric pouches, and in the family Solmaridae are suppressed altogether, so that the tentacles and the festoons of the ring-canal arise directly from the stomach.

As regards number, we find in the aberrant forms Protohydra and Microhydra tentacles entirely absent.

solid larval tentacles, re Radial nerve.

23 and 25); and, fourthly, in structure, being hollow or solid, as in the polyp. In some medusae, for instance, the remarkable deep-sea family Pectyllidae, the tentacles may bear suckers, by which the animal may attach itself temporarily.

A " stolon " of unknown origin produces thirty-two buds, which become as many Polypodia; each has twenty-four tentacles and divides by fission repeated twice into four individuals, each with six tentacles.

Arms, tentacles, and antennae stretched for it.

Just below the crown of tentacles, however, the body widens out to form a " head," termed the hydranth (a), containing a stomach-like dilatation of the digestive cavity.

II, A) the polyp bears two tentacles only.

The daughter-individuals grow, form the full number of twenty-four tentacles and divide again.

Was there any place far enough away to escape the tentacles of paternal love?

Synonyms:

grasp, grip,

Antonyms:

devolution, increase, irreversible process,