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CLASS TENTACULATA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Ctenophores have retractile tentacles
Synonyms:
class Tentaculata; Tentaculata
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("class Tentaculata" is a kind of...):
class ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders)
Meronyms (members of "class 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 ("class Tentaculata" is a member of...):
Ctenophora; phylum Ctenophora (comb jellies; sea acorns; a small phylum formerly considered a class of Coelenterata)
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