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Having tentacles, or organs like tentacles; tentacled.

Same as Suctoria, 1.

Producing or bearing tentacles.

Shaped like a tentacle.

Any one of numerous species of small, conical fossil shells found in Paleozoic rocks. They are supposed to be pteropods.

One of the auditory organs of certain medusæ; -- called also auditory tentacle.

A tentacle.

Invertebrate animals covered with shells, especially mollusks; shellfish.

Onr of the Testacea.

The science which treats of testaceans, or shellfish; the description of shellfish. [R.]

The science of testaceous mollusks; conchology. [R.]

Having a dull red brick color or a brownish yellow color. Testaceous animals (Zoöl.), animals having a firm, calcareous shell, as oysters and clams, thus distinguished from crustaceous animals, whose shells are more thin and soft, and consist of several joints, or articulations, as lobsters and crabs.…

The state or circumstance of being testate, or of leaving a valid will, or testament, at death.

Of or retaining to thermotaxis.

Of or pertaining to thigmotaxis.

A kind of backgammon played both with men and pegs; tricktrack. A game at ticktack with words. Milton.

A tackle used in hoisting and lowering the topmast.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a trout; as, fish of the truttaceous kind.

Not attached; not adhering; having no engagement; free.

To remove, or take away, from a stack; to remove, as something constituting a stack.