tentacles

     

Tentacles can refer to the elongate flexible organs that are present in some animals, especially invertebrates, and sometimes to the hairs of the leaves of some insectivorous plants. Usually, they are used for feeding, feeling and grasping. Anatomically, they work like other muscular hydrostats.

Trivia about tentacles

  • The kind of appendages found in the title of a Shelley Winters film about a giant octopus
  • On the largest jellyfish, these may be over 100 feet long
  • Unlike the octopus or squid, the nautilus may have up to 90 of these armlike appendages
  • Hydras paralyze their prey with poison from stingers on these body parts
  • Sea anemones use these both to paralyze & to gather in passing prey
  • Some varieties of cyanea jellyfish can grow these up to 120 feet long
  • The sea anemone's mouth is surrounded by these
  • Like jellyfish, sea anemones have stinging cells in these organs to paralyze small animals

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