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tentaculoid (adjective), more tentaculoid, most tentaculoid
Resembling or similar to a variety of slender, flexible processes or appendages in animals; especially, invertebrates, that serve as devices for touching, feeling, and catching food: Members of the tentaculoid species are specialized carnivorous predators with sucker-lined tentacles and well-developed sense organs.

Some of the more tentaculoid animals are larger than most of the other invertebrates (without backbones); for example, the giant squid, "Architeuthis", may develop into 20 meters (slightly over 65 feet) in length, which is said to be by far the largest of the living invertebrate tentaculoid species.

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