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Definition of Tentacle sheath

Tentacle sheath
Tentacle Ten"ta*cle, n. [NL. tentaculum, from L. tentare to handle, feel: cf. F. tentacule. See Tempt.] (Zo["o]l.) A more or less elongated process or organ, simple or branched, proceeding from the head or cephalic region of invertebrate animals, being either an organ of sense, prehension, or motion. Tentacle sheath (Zo["o]l.), a sheathlike structure around the base of the tentacles of many mollusks.

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- organs and tissues of each individual zooid. This includes the tentacles, tentacle sheath, U-shaped digestive tract, musculature and nerve cells. It is...
- zooids incubating non-feeding pseudocyphonautes larva in the modified tentacle sheath. Flustrellidra hispida is an amphiboreal species, widely distributed...
- adhesive substance which ensnares the prey. These tentacles can be retracted into a tentacle sheath. The body is on the whole light pink in colour, oval...
- in length. It has a pair of long tentacles that are used to catch prey and can be retracted into sheaths. The tentacles are up to twenty times the length...
- structure, a fleshy sheath that contains the second structure: an extendable cirrus (plural: cirri). The sheaths of the digital tentacles are fused at their...
- who interpret the ****tive "column" part of its body as formed by 18 tentacle-sheath complexes, and interpret X. sinica as a possible stem-ctenop**** related...
- juveniles have large mouths and, like the adults, lack both tentacles and tentacle sheaths. In some groups, such as the flat, bottom-dwelling platyctenids...
- feathery, contractile tentacles, which can be retracted into specialised ciliated sheaths. In some species, the primary tentacles are reduced and they...
- each of the animal's tentacles is composed of a thin flexible cirrus and the corresponding hardened and protective cirrus sheath into which the cirri...
- only on the tentacles and outer surface. All colonial hydrozoans also include some polyps specialized for reproduction. These lack tentacles and contain...