tentacula

• “Each polypus, though closely united to its brethren, has a distinct mouth, body, and tentacula.”

  Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle

• “Dr. Johnson, to be sure, commends the habit of "browsing" in libraries; and this will do very well for those whose memory clinches, like the tentacula of zoöphytes, around every particle of nourishment that comes within its reach.”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859

• “The crinoids are an early and simple form of the large family of star-fishes; the animal is little more than a stomach, surrounded by tentacula to provide itself with food, and mounted upon a many-jointed stalk, so as to resemble a flower upon its stem.”

  An Expository Outline of the "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation" With a Notice of the Author's "Explanations:" A Sequel to the Vestiges

• “At this time, also, all unsightly projecting burdens -- such as a log of firewood on the shoulder -- were forbidden, lest it should be considered by the god as a mockery of his _tentacula_.”

  Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before

• “They are supposed to serve as a defence, and may be seen, as Mr. Busk remarks, “to sweep slowly and carefully over the surface of the polyzoary, removing what might be noxious to the delicate inhabitants of the cells when their tentacula are protruded.”

  VII. Miscellaneous Objections to the Theory of Natural Selection

• “” The avicularia, like the vibracula, probably serve for defence, but they also catch and kill small living animals, which it is believed are afterwards swept by the currents within reach of the tentacula of the zooids.”

  VII. Miscellaneous Objections to the Theory of Natural Selection

• “It must have been an entire delusion on my part to have supposed that those tentacula had ever been twined about the bowl.”

  The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Modern English

• “Little or no resistance seemed to be offered to the passage of the blade, but as it was inserted the tentacula simultaneously began to writhe and twist.”

  The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Modern English

• “The creature was represented as climbing over the edge of the bowl down toward the stem, and its legs, or feelers, or tentacula, or whatever the things are called, were, if I may use a vulgarism, sprawling about "all over the place.”

  The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Modern English

• “He had utterly given her up; he had seen only too clearly which way her love was stretching its tentacula, and he had long since submitted himself to the knowledge that they did not stretch themselves out to grapple with the strings of his heart.”

  The Dictator

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