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Sentence Examples Initial treatment of envenomation involves preventing further toxin release by removing any remaining tentacles or other retained animal parts. The squid's tentacles are armed with suckers, each ringed with tiny teeth to help snare prey. The lagomorph's ears twitched as six black tentacles covered in suckers and small spines came bursting from its ears. Thousands of giant jellyfish with 30 foot stinging tentacles have invaded the seas around Scotland. The pink jellyfish grow to three feet in diameter and their tentacles can reach 70 feet. A giant monster resembling a giant jellyfish emerged from the lava pool and wrapped its tentacles around Lupus. The largest dead squid on record measured about 60 ft including the length of its tentacles, but no one knows how big the creatures might grow. The feeding zooids use retractile tentacles, called the lophophore, to filter feed and have a U-shaped gut for digestion. The leatherjackets and wrasses continued their work below them, as tiny tubularia hydroids waved their tentacles from the hull. The male has been known to nip at the bottom edges of the tentacles in order to cause retraction. Seti's black eyes lit up, and several tentacles were instantly flung around Indigo's torso and chest, constricting like snake coils. Dangling from the head was an innumerable collection of articulate tentacles. And they're the most obvious sign of the West's relentless tentacles reaching into Angola today. Through this opening, the lophophore, a ring of ciliated tentacles centered on the mouth, protrudes to capture small food particles. Their verbs are lovingly wrapped in the multiple tentacles of appropriate or inappropriate adverbs, depending, I suppose, on their mood. The bud develops its own mouth and set of feeding tentacles but shares a gut, and hence its food, with its parent. The feature shared by this group is the lophophore, an unusual feeding appendage bearing hollow tentacles. It has powerful arms and tentacles, excellent underwater vision, and a razor-sharp beak that easily tears through the flesh of its prey. Something in the water had wrapped its arms or tentacles around his legs and was dragging him down despite his efforts. It is believed that they captured prey with their retractable tentacles and passed it to their mouth where a beak-like jaw tore it into pieces. Show More Sentences The tentacles contain harpoon-like stinging capsules called nematocysts that the anemones employ to capture prey and ward off predators. If we approach carefully, the beautiful patterning on the soft tissues, the slender tentacles and iridescent eye spots can all be observed. The tip of the snout is expanded into a naked pink disc which supports 22 finger-like tentacles or feelers which give this creature its name. Older males in particular also have tentacles on the first few spines of their dorsal fins. These anemone eat small crustaceans, plankton and various tidepool animals that venture into the range of their stinging tentacles. Nearby spread the prehistoric-looking tentacles of Welwitschia plants that date from the age of the dinosaurs. The mychorrhizal fungi live on the roots and physically extend the plant's reach for nutrients and water with hairlike tentacles called hyphae. Under certain conditions the spores grow extravagantly, infiltrating the tree with multitudes of thread-thin tentacles. In China, 17 percent of the population has yet to hear of AIDS, even as the disease spreads its tentacles there. Over the years, gentrification spread its tentacles north of the river and then the moon villages became a prime real estate target. Cultural capital, based in most cases on financial capital and class privilege, spreads its tentacles both on the Left and the Right. The anticapitalist movement has spread its tentacles into the Middle East through the antiwar movement. The music festival that spreads its diverse tentacles from Aberdeen south to Glasgow and Edinburgh is now in its sixth year. The mystery this film sets up is how far have the tentacles and influence of the rebellion infiltrated the town? But elsewhere in the world terrorism has spread its tentacles, leaving heavy tolls in its wake. The bank grew three fold in its network in the '70s and spread its tentacles in seven other states. They are giant multinational corporations, with their tentacles spread across the globe. But as capitalism spreads its tentacles across the globe this trend is changing. Winner takes it all mentality has successfully spread its tentacles deep into our societal fabric and has infiltrated our institutions. A gang who spread the tentacles of their evil drug-dealing ring to York have been warned they face substantial prison sentences. Show More Sentences He soon came back to Wales, to the big War that had started and was spreading its tentacles around the whole of Europe. One end of the sea cucumber is its mouth, recognizable by a fringe of tentacles. Full grown, the animal might be as big as your thumbnail, but it's probably got a set of tentacles that are three quarters of a metre long. Some of these medusoid fossils show clear impressions of tentacles around their margins. This squid has one of the largest beaks known of any squid and also has unique swivelling hooks on the clubs at the ends of its tentacles. He's an otherwise decent scientist possessed by the swirling, serpentine tentacles that continually whisper in his ears. Recent modeling studies have focused on systems such as vertebrate jaws, limbs, tongues and tentacles and axial muscle. These turned out to be remains from the tentacles of extinct squid-like belemnites. Her dress resembles a beach featuring rocks at the bottom with fish and pearls, sewn and painted and even a train of octopus tentacles. She was sleeping deeply, her tentacles curled gently about her shelled torso. It is a rampant triffid like grass, spreading out long tentacles that actually climb up trees or fences if left alone. Similar to sponges, but with tentacles, moss animals or bryozoans are strange creatures. The mouth is usually on the concave side, and the tentacles originate on the rim of the umbrella. They have fleshy tentacles located above their eyes and below their mouths. One or two pairs of tentacles are found on the head, depending on whether the snail or slug is terrestrial or aquatic. As their common name implies, box jellies have a square shaped bell, to which four clumps of tentacles are attached. Rural homesteads beyond the tentacles of urban sprawl remain the best place to preserve traditional Amish ways. The generous portion came in a mass of chunks and tentacles, mixed with sliced Spanish onion, lemon and capers, barely warm and expertly cooked. All around the pedestal, black tentacles grew of the mist, thick and hairy, their undersides covered with tiny snapping jaws. Like a monstrous octopus, poverty spreads its nagging, prehensile tentacles into hamlets and villages all over our world. Show More Sentences The tentacles are arranged in concentric rings of 6, then 6, then 12, then 24 tentacles and so on. The genus Eoporpita shows extensive tentacles radiating from a central boss, which in some specimens appears chambered. In addition to the tentacles, these extremities include the hypostome, the lower peduncle, which is committed to foot formation, and the foot. The oral tentacles then pass the paralysed prey to the mouth and into the coelenteron for digestion. Huge tentacles of the fat, purple octopus were interwoven with a mix of grated carrots, peppers, cubes of boiled potato and frisee leaves. This species has specialized scales, which are called ganoid scales, and it has nostrils or nares on tentacles that protrude from the head. These are trapped by the protrusible ciliated feeding tentacles, or lophophore. Motile species crawl across the substrate and use tentacles to capture sediment and organic detritus. It was partially obscured by the wilted tentacles of a suspended epiphyte. At one end of the animal is a mouth surrounded by tentacles. The head is often blunt and typically adorned with tentacles or cirri. Beneath their tentacles is a mouth full of teeth the size of fingers. Many people might have felt better knowing that ministers are also troubled by the crime monster whose tentacles appear to be thrusting unstoppably all over. Though fairly simple animals, the tentacles of sea anemones are covered with intricate stinging cells used both for defence and for capturing prey. In a dark rocky cave, a giant octopus spread its long, writhing tentacles in search of its prey, and gazed the while through the water with large lustreless eyes. These feet are long, thin, flexible tentacles ending in tiny suction cups. It has a larger beak than the giant squid and has hooks on its tentacles. Scattered about were sea anemones, reddish lumps in the daylight, but, I was told, when they opened at night their massed tentacles would be almost scarlet. A short fringe of tentacles surrounds a the broad oval disc. Among their more unusual behavior, the octopuses employ a unique defense mechanism by tearing off the tentacles of passing Portuguese man-of-war jellyfish. Show More Sentences It appears as if all of the staining in the cerebral ganglia is due to processes emanating from cells in the ganglia at the base of the tentacles. Up to 30 cm across, it is usually found below 20m and can be easily recognised by its fleshy pink or white tentacles which, unlike most other anemones, it cannot retract. Belemnites also possessed hooks rather than suckers on their tentacles. A nautilus does not have suckers on its tentacles like an octopus does. Its tentacles, as long and wide as rivers, end in yawning mouths which sweep the ground, devouring the nomads and their ponies, hundreds at a gulp. The gold mounting is decorated with pearling and designed in a spiral pattern that has been heavily chased to give the effect of octopus tentacles. Like jellyfish, Medusa can sting an enemy with its tentacles. The second unknown squid lost its tentacles in the trawl net. Its transnational tentacles reach into every corner of the globe. When the females are bigger than 7 cm they never find jellyfish tentacles. The tentacles around the mouth are disposed in concentric circles, usually forming a series of radial lines rather than being alternately arranged. Huge oysters, terrifyingly substantial octopus tentacles, lightly curried saffron prawns and lobster, crayfish and crab meat, cod fillet and winkles. The fickle old tentacles of fame have already had far-reaching effects. Decked out in a Napoleonic hat embellished with creepy tentacles, the giraffe-necked figure has a sloe-eyed green lizard draped around his high collar. There are plastic sunfish-looking creatures swimming about, along with a bobbing jellyfish complete with plastic tentacles, and a crab with snapping plastic pincers. A cephalopod is a mollusk that has feet adapted to form tentacles around its mouth. All three apparently lacked tentacles but had between 24 and 80 comb rows, far more than the 8 typical of living species. Presence of jellyfish or other jellies were identified by presence of tentacles, nematocysts, and whole or partial individuals. Jellyfish sting using nematocysts, which are located in special cells called cnidocytes on the tentacles. The tentacles of the Portuguese man-of-war can, even when detached, cause stings to humans lasting up to two weeks. Show More Sentences Cut off the tentacles of an actinia, and they are replaced in a short time, and the experiment may be repeated indefinitely. The infundibulate Bryozoa have a circular arrangement of the tentacles upon the disk. Six of the Krabben's massive tentacles had wrapped themselves around the mizzensail. They do not, like sea stars, depend on tube feet, which are mere sensory tentacles without suction. The tentacles may be utilized to capture prey or defend against predators by emitting toxins in a painful sting. It is joined to the radial canals which extend to the margin of the bell, where tentacles are attached. The stinging cells on a box jellyfish's tentacles are not triggered by pressure. Clearing the area of jelly, tentacles, and wetness further reduces nematocyst firing. From opposite sides of the body extends a pair of long, slender tentacles, each housed in a sheath into which it can be withdrawn. Some species of cydippids have bodies that are flattened to various extents, so that they are wider in the plane of the tentacles. The tentacles and tentilla are densely covered with microscopic colloblasts that capture prey by sticking to it. They capture prey by movements of the bell and possibly by using two short tentacles. The stinging apparatus of the sea nettle consists of a nematocyst filled with venoms located primarily on the fishing tentacles of the animal. The suckers of cuttlefish extend most of the length of their arms and along the distal portion of their tentacles. Then when the prey tries to escape, the cuttlefish open their eight arms and shoot out two long feeding tentacles to grab them. Cephalopods are primarily predatory, and the radula takes a secondary role to the jaws and tentacles in food acquisition. Sundews are characterised by the glandular tentacles, topped with sticky secretions, that cover their laminae. All species of sundew are able to move their tentacles in response to contact with edible prey. The rapid acid growth allows the sundew tentacles to bend, aiding in the retention and digestion of prey. It only makes up for the lack of spathic content if the tentacles are, ahem, 'Centaurian' in nature. Show More Sentences The body was small, but fitted with two bunches of prehensile organs, like long tentacles, immediately under the mouth. Sketch the Obelia Cnidaria medusa Obelia Medusae slide and label the bell, Deerhorn coral skeleton mouth, and tentacles. The expression apparently alludes to the tentacles of octopods insidiously catching their prey. The gas bladder floats at the surface and tentacles are trailing in the water. Among the most eye-catching was the siphonophore, the world's longest animal that can extend for up to 150ft, bristling with poisonous tentacles. So is fittonia, which has red or white veins, along with hypoestes and peperomia, with its distinctive tentacles. The corporation's tentacles are felt in every sector of the industry. Surmounting this head were four slender grey stalks bearing flower-like appendages, whilst from its nether side dangled eight greenish antennae or tentacles. Phospholipase A 2 activity has been detected in the homogenized tentacles and acontia of cnidarians including subphylums Anthozoa, Schyphozoa, Hydrozoa and Cubozoa. Ryan blinked and looked at the squidling. It flew up using its tentacles and drifted down onto Ryan's snout. It waved around a tentacle and formed a bubble that drifted away. The tentacles are extremely sensitive and will bend toward the center of the leaf to bring the insect into contact with as many stalked glands as possible. Nematocysts in the tentacles paralyze prey, such as small plankton. The Ganeshida have a pair of small oral lobes and a pair of tentacles. And the star-nosed mole, with 22 finger-like tentacles ringing its sensitive snout, may be the world's fastest eater, but with a face like that, would you invite it to dinner? For example, if a ctenophore with trailing tentacles captures prey, it will often put some comb rows into reverse, spinning the mouth towards the prey. The three goals of first aid for uncomplicated stings are to prevent injury to rescuers, deactivate the nematocysts, and remove tentacles attached to the patient. These small tube worms burrow into coral and have tentacles that look like tiny cone-shaped trees and are wildly colored, thus the name Christmas Tree Worms. There are gooseberrylike comb jellies, armed with grasping tentacles, and there are the shrimplike euphausiids that strain food from the water with their bristly appendages. It's a Dali-esque frightmare of liquescent forms, a pseudo-organic samplescape congested with scrofulous sound tentacles and slithery slimeshapes. Two boys, Rhett Gingyard and Gaffney Dorn, are fast friends who face adventure and danger together, from copperheads and wild boars to octopus tentacles and stone crabs. Show More Sentences The tentacles of the Portuguese Man-of-War can be over 100ft long. Learn how a jelly can devour enough food to double its weight each day, or how sea nettles hunt by trailing their long stinging tentacles to paralyze prey upon contact. What was that story about a human ambassador who went into space to learn the language of a huge betentacled alien, and finally learned it but gained tentacles in the bargain? Examples from Classical Literature In the alcyonarian forms belonging to this great group these tentacles are always eight in number, and fringed on both sides. The black mass on the mountain came down like amoebic tentacles, met and coalesced, muttering and mumbling. The arms were long and had the curved movement of the tentacles of a devil-fish. The stomodaeum lies in the sagittal plane, the funnel and tentacles in the transverse or tentacular plane. Upon this flexible anterior part there are four short but distensible tentacles. The original terminal ring of tentacles of the scyphistoma gradually atrophies. The nerves of the mouth and its tentacles originate in the first ganglion, those of the respiratory organs in the second. However efficient Stinson's operations might have been, their tentacles hadn't reached the 'copter-rental station at the heliport. In both cases the hydranth is extremely reduced and has no tentacles, and the polyp forms a colony by budding from the base. He stared at a cylinder which was beginning to sprout tentacles from the circle. The mouth is surrounded by tentacles, or by tentacular folds, and is at the base of the proboscis. Her underbody colloid is open and her transporter-slings hang down like tentacles. The opalescence above referred to principally affects the manubrium, tentacles, and margin of the nectocalyx. There are tentacles and otolith vesicles as very delicate organs of feeling, or possibly of hearing also. They were the nests of the Keeper's tentacles, and out from them the whiplike tendrils uncoiled, shot out and writhed toward us. As he rose, ropy tentacles twined about him, and he saw what had saved him. The tentacles of the bronchial tube seem to be possessed of exquisite sensibility. Prolongations from the rim of chondral tissue may form clasps or peronia supporting the tentacles. B represents two tentacles, showing the direction in which the cilia vibrate. In this way is formed a ring of tentacles, the most characteristic organs of the Cnidaria. Show More Sentences Paired tentacles short, proximally thick and convexly bulging, abruptly narrowed to an acute tip with incurving sides. In a group round the mouth were sixteen slender, almost whiplike tentacles, arranged in two bunches of eight each. He saw the sandy bottom covered with shells, a rock with tentacles of seaweed floating from it, several huge crabs, a multitude of small fishes. Four long, Twining tentacles were attached directly to the head. He saw this one pursue a man, catch him up in one of its steely tentacles, and knock his head against the trunk of a pine tree. These tentacles are fringed laterally by a series of vibratile cilia. The greater part of the structure was the brain, sending enormous nerves to the eyes, ear, and tactile tentacles. Personally and politically he was held tight by the Teuton tentacles. Her underbody colloid is open land her transporter-slings hang down like tentacles. One could see the 250 air holes on the inner side of the tentacles. Then I felt other soft little tentacles upon my back and shoulders. I half turned, keeping my eyes fixed upon the cylinder still, from which other tentacles were now projecting, and began pushing my way back from the edge of the pit. The era from the 1920s to the 1970s was when ocean liners became safer, faster and more luxurious and the city's tentacles spread around the globe like an over-limbed octopus. Having once got its tentacles fastened on to the economic and social life of the Republic, it was no easy matter for the country to relieve itself of the institution. Into this aperture I insert my tentacles and seize the spinal cord. Find more words! 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Words that rhyme with tentacles What is the adjective for tentacles? What is the noun for tentacles? Translations for tentacles Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words tentacled tentacle tent ten-strike tensor tenson tentacula tentacular tentage tentative tentatively tentativeness 9-letter Words Starting With t te ten tent tenta tentac tentacl tentacle