tentaculibranchiate (tentak"ulibrangkiat)

[ taining to the Tentaculibranchiata. tentaculicyst (ten-tak'ū-li-sist), n. [ cyst.] One of the vesicular or cystic tentacles of a hydrozoan; a marginal body representing a reduced and modified tentacle, whose axis is a hollow endodermal proce that distinguishes it from the other kinds of marginal bodies, which are wholly of ectodermal origin, as ocelli cysts and otocysts. Also tentaculocyst. See lithocyst, and cut under Steganophthalmata. tentaculicystic (ten-tak"ū-li-sis'tik), a. [ cating with the body-cavity, set in circular form around ture of their proce es, and divided into Suc the mouth, in one or several series, as the fleshy lobes of a sea-anemone. (m) In Hydrozoa, some tentaculiform part, proce , or appendage. The tentacles of the Portuguese man-of-war are several feet long. (n) In Protozoa, a pseudopod, or prolongation of the body, especially when slender, stiffish, and more or le permanent, as one of the rays of a sun-animalcule or of an acinetiform infusorian. See Tentaculifera. 2. In bot., a kind of sensitive hair or filament, such as the glandular hairs of Drosera. A tentacle consists of a thin straight hair-like pedicel, carrying a gland on the summit. Darwin, Insectiv. Plants, p. 5. 3. Figuratively, anything resembling a tentacle; a feeler. - Auditory tentacle, a tentaculicyst. -Branchial, nuchal, ocular, etc., tentacle. See the adjectives. tentacled (ten'ta-kld), a. [