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Tentacular

Tentacular \Ten*tac"u*lar\, a. [Cf. F. tentaculaire.] (Zo["o]l.) Of or pertaining to a tentacle or tentacles.

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tentacular

a. 1 Of, or pertaining to, tentacles. 2 Resembling a tentacle or tentacles.

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tentacular

adj. of or relating to or resembling tentacles

Usage examples of "tentacular".

It had six tentacular limbs which served both as locomotor and manipulatory appendages and, like many immensely strong beings forced to live among entities many times weaker than itself, it was careful and gentle in its movements.

They seemed to be made of metal, and many had wheels as well asor instead oflegs and tentacular arms.

The Pnathian ambassador began whispering incoherently, and her tentacular appendages started thrashing wildly.

And he found it difficult to believe that Unitek, several of its tentacular subsidiaries, and the Canadian government were hosting a free recreational gamespace for no more return than the exposure.

In close proximity to humans, it uses tentacular, prehensile vines to entrap its prey while leechlike adaptations latch onto exposed skin and draw fatal quantities of blood.

The Pring's mashies were now fully exposed, waving at the ends of the tentacular lips.

The Pring’s mashies were now fully exposed, waving at the ends of the tentacular “lips.

The Pring's mashies were now fully exposed, waving at the ends of the tentacular "lips.

Civilized or not, Hellman saw that most of the robots in this part of Robotsville had small round bodies like squids, with six or eight tentacular limbs with differently shaped grasping members at their ends.

We shall not attempt to speculate on the specific nature of the sensory experience correlated with the small, protected, tentacular sensory organ of the Heruls.

He who dived in the swirling Maelstrom saw none to compare with them in horror: tentacular convolutions, tumid bulges, glaring orbs of sepian deformity, would have looked to him innocence beside such incarnations of hatefulness--every head the wicked flower that, bursting from an abominable stalk, perfected its evil significance.