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Of or pertaining to a tentacle or tentacles.

A division of Ctenophora including those which have two long tentacles.

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.

A collection of tents; an encampment. [Obs.] Drayton.

Trial; temptation. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Of or pertaining to a trial or trials; essaying; experimental. "A slow, tentative manner." Carlyle. -- Ten*ta"tive*ly, adv.

Covered with tents.

One who takes care of, or tends, machines in a factory; a kind of assistant foreman.

As much, or as many, as a tent will hold.

Constituting or being one of ten equal parts into which anything is divided.

In a tenth manner.

the measurement of many small lengths, such that 1010 of these units make one meter; the ten millionth part of a millimeter.

A group of Hymneoptera comprising the sawflies.

Attentive. [Obs.] Chaucer.