TENTACULATA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Tentaculata mean? 

• TENTACULATA (noun)
  The noun TENTACULATA has 1 sense:

1. ctenophores have retractile tentacles

  Familiarity information: TENTACULATA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TENTACULATA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Ctenophores have retractile tentacles

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

class Tentaculata; Tentaculata

Hypernyms ("Tentaculata" is a kind of...):

class ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders)

Meronyms (members of "Tentaculata"):

Cydippea; Cydippida; Cydippidea; order Cydippea; order Cydippida; order Cydippidea (ctenophores having two long pinnate tentacles)

order Platyctenea; Platyctenea (an order of Tentaculata)

Cestida; order Cestida (ctenophore having short tentacles; one family)

Lobata; order Lobata (ctenophore having tentacles only in the immature stage; body compressed vertically having two large oral lobes and four pointed processes)

Holonyms ("Tentaculata" is a member of...):

Ctenophora; phylum Ctenophora (comb jellies; sea acorns; a small phylum formerly considered a class of Coelenterata)