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something that acts like a tentacle in its ability to grasp and hold

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any of various elongated tactile or prehensile flexible organs that occur on the head or near the mouth in many animals

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Omelius Friedlowsky, telling of the former's discovery of a horrific, tentaculate pitcher plant in the jungles of Madagascar.
Lives of the monster plants: the revenge of the vegetable in the age of animal studies
Frithsen JB, Doering PH (1986) Active enhancement of particle removal from water column by tentaculate benthic Polychaetes, Ophelia 25: 169-182.
Proposal of a numerical index to evaluate the quality of sediments influenced by the oil industry /Propuesta de un indice numerico para evaluar la calidad del sedimento influenciado por la industria petrolera/Proposta de um indice numerico para avaliar a qualidade do sedimento influenciado pela industria petroleira
Tentaculate deposit feeders, such as Amphitrite spp., are known to feed predominantly on particles with a low weight to area ratio (Jumars et al.
Changes in the biodiversity of mussel assemblages induced by two methods of cultivation
Feeding behavior of tentaculate predators: in situ observations and a conceptual model.
Fluid interactions that enable stealth predation by the upstream-foraging hydromedusa Craspedacusta sowerbyi
In contrast, the importance of the tentacles as capture sites increased, starting with their first appearance in the early tentaculate stage.
Transitions in morphology, nematocyst distribution, fluid motions, and prey capture during development of the scyphomedusa Cyanea capillata
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