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tentaculocyst Zool.|tɛnˈtækjʊləʊˌsɪst|
[f. tentaculum + Gr. κύστ-ις bladder, cyst.]
One of the vesicular or cystic tentacles of a hydrozoan, representing a reduced and modified tentacle: see quots. Also tentaculicyst.
1880E. R. Lankester in Nature 4 Mar. 414/1 What I have elsewhere termed ‘tentaculocysts’, modified tentacles which act as auditory organs and have often eye-spots on them as well. 1881― in Encycl. Brit. XII. 555/2 Combined visual and auditory organs in the form of modified tentacles (tentaculocysts). |