tentaculate, a. (n.) Zool.
(tɛnˈtækjʊlət)
[f. as prec. + -ate2.]
1. Furnished with tentacles or tentaculiform appendages; rarely = tentaculiform.
| 1846 Dana Zooph. (1848) 320 Polyps obsolescently tentaculate. 1877 Huxley Anat. Inv. Anim. ii. 109 In the Acinetae, the tentaculate stage is the more permanent, the ciliated stage transitory. |
2. Of or pertaining to the Tentaculata, or stalked Echinoderms. b. n. A member of the Tentaculata; a pelmatozoan.