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    Tentacle. In zoology, a tentacle is a flexible, mobile, and elongated organ present in some species of animals, most of them invertebrates. In animal anatomy, tentacles usually occur in one or more pairs. Anatomically, the tentacles of animals work mainly like muscular hydrostats.

  2. Jun 15, 1977 · Tentacles: Directed by Ovidio G. Assonitis. With John Huston, Shelley Winters, Bo Hopkins, Henry Fonda. A mutated giant octopus wreaks havoc on a California seaside community.

  3. Tentacles (Italian: Tentacoli) is a 1977 horror-thriller film directed by Ovidio G. Assonitis and starring John Huston, Shelley Winters, Bo Hopkins, Cesare Danova, Delia Boccardo and Henry Fonda. When numerous people go missing in a seaside resort town, a reporter discovers that a rampaging giant octopus is terrorizing the coast.

  4. Nov 29, 2021 · "The basic difference is arms have a line of suckers going down them, whereas tentacles don't have suckers until you get to the tentacular clubs, which are the kind of large part at the end ...

  5. May 5, 2019 · Definition. When used in a zoological context, the term tentacle refers to a slender, elongated, flexible organ that grows near the mouth of an animal. Tentacles are most common in invertebrates, although they are present in some vertebrates as well.

  6. Jul 26, 2024 · Squids have elongated tubular bodies and short compact heads. Two of the 10 arms have developed into long slender tentacles with expanded ends and four rows of suckers with toothed, horny rings. The body of most squids is strengthened by a feathery-shaped internal shell composed of a horny material.

  7. A tentacle is a part of the body of an animal or plant that can move freely. They are like arms. Some invertebrates, like squid, sea anemones or hydras have them. They use the tentacles to catch food, or to grip the sourroundings.

  8. 1. : any of various elongate flexible usually tactile or prehensile processes borne by invertebrate animals chiefly on the head or about the mouth. 2. : something that resembles a tentacle especially in or as if in grasping or feeling out. corruption spreading its tentacles. 3. : a sensitive hair or emergence on a plant (such as the sundew)

  9. Tentacles -- boneless appendages that serve some prehensile or tactile purpose -- appear in handful of animal lineages in the sea and on land. Vertebrates and invertebrates have tentacles. Among these differing kinds of animals, tentacles perform a variety of roles, including hunting and sensing.

  10. The tentacles are long processes containing blood vessels and are continuous with the body cavity, or coelom. Rows of very thin single-celled units called pinnules are found on the tentacles. The pinnules, which…

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