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t. [ Tyl Y come, take tent to redyng, to exortacioun, and teching. Wyclif , 1 Tim. iv. 13. The high parliament Of Heaven; where Seraphim take tent Of ordering all. 21. Intent; purpose. B. Jonson, Underwoods, cii. 1. IMG:content-0098.png:[blocks in formation] 6235 + ar3.] Of or pertaining to a tentacle, in any sense; of the nature, structure, function, or appearance of a tentacle; adapted or used as a tactile organ; tentaculiform: as, ments, or formation. tentacular character, move At the base of the tentacular circle. W. B. Carpenter , Micros., § 551. Tentacular branch, one of the branches of a tentacle in some Hy drozoa. Tentacular canal, in crinoids, the central or common canal, which branches into the tentacles and places their cavities in communication with the common cavity, and so with one another.Tentacular person, a tentacle like or filamentous part of a compound organism, as a hydroid polyp, provided with an urticating organ; a nectocalyx. - Tentacular sheath, in conch., a structure which sheathes the bases of the tentacles of various mollusks. of End of a Tentacular Branch of sathorybia rosacea, a siphonophorous hydrozoan. an. e, the involucrum investing the sacculus, the end of which is straight with the ling curling tround around Proce es it. Tentaculata (ten-tak-ū-lātä), n. pl. [NL., neut. pl. tentaculatus: see tentaculate.] 1. In some systems, a branch or prime division of echinoderms: contrasted with Ambulacrata, and divided into three cla es, Crinoidea, Cystoidea, and Blastoidea.-2. A division of ctenophorans, of ctenophorans, including comb-jellies with two lon long tentacles. See cuts under Saccatæ .