| 单词 | tentacular |
| 例句 | One possibility is our difficulty in relating to octopuses: Their personalities are hard to read and their water-dwelling bodies resemble miniature sea monsters with multiple tentacular limbs and bulging eyes. Why the ethics of octopus farming are so troubling 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z Sometimes there’s the amplified ticking of a clock, a bursting heartbeat, a mismatched thrum of tentacular chords or a brass fanfare sliding into sinister dissonance. Review: Shakespeare’s Take on the Game of Thrones 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z Dr. King’s tentacular hands finger gold coins, but he has a halo, while Reagan, considerably viler, sprouts tubes labeled with words like “police power” and “education.” Review: ‘Peter Saul: From Pop to Punk,’ a Firebrand Willing to Offend 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z Yi’s floating forms respond to the air in Turbine Hall in unpredictable ways, with each of the tentacular, bulbous creatures programmed to display its own set of behaviors. The Artistic Aromas of Anicka Yi 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z Religion is viewed as the death of reason and the fear of it tentacular reach spawns science marches. Forging an individual identity when the group is all anybody, inside or out, wants to talk about: S.K. Ali’s YA novel “Saints and Misfits” 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z Much like his colleague Lamar, Washington had a tentacular approach when it came to his music. In 2015, jazz reasserted itself 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z Carnegie’s tentacular spread now includes the Academy, a four-year-old program it runs with the Juilliard School. With More Than Concerts, Carnegie Widens Its Playing Field 2011-01-19T17:27:46Z So, this mediocre and derivative artist exerts his posthumous tentacular grip and spreads the well-meaning lie that virtue equals genius. Henry Moore has carved out a bigger reputation than he deserves 2012-12-12T14:43:57Z The 380-page Senate report, which stemmed from a four-month inquiry, described the firms’ influence on the government as “tentacular,” detailing how private consultants routinely sat in on ministry meetings and anonymously wrote government reports. Macron Goes on Defensive Over Use of McKinsey and Other Consultants 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z Eliminating it would required purging a tentacular web of corruption encompassing thousands of people and built up over years. ‘It’s Time to Break the Chains.’ Algerians Seek a Revolution. 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z The tentacular crown, composed of structures called radioles, is crucial to the fanworm game plan: it’s how they eat and breathe. Fanworms, "Nature's Eye Factories", Stick Them Pretty Much Anywhere 2018-11-18T05:00:00Z Carillion has had a tentacular reach in Britain, not just in the running of schools and prisons, but in building hospitals, railways and thousands of homes for the Ministry of Defense. Collapse of U.K. Construction Giant Rattles the Government 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z His presidential tenure may advance conservative policies or arrest the growth of tentacular bureaucracy. Burst your bubble: conservatives on Mike Cernovich and Trump's foreign policy 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z But she never quite shook Geraldine’s tentacular grip, or ceased to be tormented by her disapproval. The Haunted Mind of Shirley Jackson 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z Now it is back, its tentacular reach indicated by the opening credits, in which an octopus tries to molest a loaded firearm. James Bond, Existentialist 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z The tentacular eyes, on the other hand, are cut from very different cloth. Fanworms, "Nature's Eye Factories", Stick Them Pretty Much Anywhere 2018-11-18T05:00:00Z They also saw its tentacular reach as a force-multiplier for their own ambitions, and wagered on Brotherhood-style Islamism as the political wave of the Arab future. Islamism is no longer the answer 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z Nye said the fiscal crisis had compounded damage to Washington's world image from revelations of tentacular global Internet surveillance by the National Security Agency by former intelligence consultant Edward Snowden. Analysis: U.S. 'soft power' takes a hit over government shutdown 2013-10-17T15:22:39Z News Corp, Rupert Murdoch’s tentacular publishing company, is putting out a tablet targeted at the education market. Conflict Of Interest Behind News Corp Tablet 2013-03-08T15:44:20Z A Beholder monster lurches at you, its eyeballs wriggling on tentacular stems. Many-Eyed Monsters Prove the Eyes Have It 2012-10-31T01:00:00Z Moreover, mapping tentacular eyes’ appearance and complexity onto a family tree of fanworms suggests it is likely that these eyes evolved from vertebrate-like components not once, but two or three separate times. Fanworms, "Nature's Eye Factories", Stick Them Pretty Much Anywhere 2018-11-18T05:00:00Z The searches stem from an investigation into illegal campaign financing allegations, part of the tentacular so-called Bettencourt Affair that weighed down Sarkozy's presidency for years. Sarkozy Searched! 2012-07-03T18:06:00Z Bacon derives his bulbous figures from a tentacular Picasso beach scene. Gallagher Rocks, Keynes’s Picasso, Digital Diva: London Weekend 2012-02-23T22:19:44Z The tentacular arms are rather short and thick. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z The stomodaeum lies in the sagittal plane, the funnel and tentacles in the transverse or tentacular plane. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" 2012-01-22T03:00:24.397Z On reaching it one of them struck it with his "gaff," when immediately it showed signs of life, and shot out its two tentacular arms, as if to seize its antagonists. Sea Monsters Unmasked and Sea Fables Explained 2011-07-11T02:00:07.857Z Both the velum and the tentacular sheath bear numerous minute tubercles on the external surface. Freshwater Sponges, Hydroids & Polyzoa 2011-06-25T02:00:17.833Z A gradual reduction of the tentacular arms can be seen in the Decapoda, leading to their total absence in Octopoda; thus in Leachia, Chaunoteuthis and others these arms are reduced to mere stumps. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" Its body was 7 ft. long, its fins 22 in. broad, and its tentacular arms 24 ft. long. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z Small accessory tentacles lie in grooves, but there is no tentacular pouch; the meridianal vessels anastomose in the lobes. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" 2012-01-22T03:00:24.397Z Fortunately, he was able to obtain from the fishermen a portion of one of the tentacular arms which they had chopped off with the axe, and by so doing rendered good service to science. Sea Monsters Unmasked and Sea Fables Explained 2011-07-11T02:00:07.857Z Immediately below each eye springs out a long, jointless, boneless, tentacular arm; an arm which at its extremity divides into eight delicate and sensitive, but very strong, "fingers." Triplanetary Phylogeny and Classification.—The order is divided into two sub-orders, Decapoda and Octopoda, by the presence or absence of the tentacular arms. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" In Cheiroteuthis itself the tentacular arms are very long and slender, and are not capable of retraction into pockets. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z The tentacular bases and pouches are present, but there is no main tentacle as in Cydippidea; fine accessory tentacles lie in four grooves along the oral edge. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" 2012-01-22T03:00:24.397Z Long tentacular arms 32 feet; head 2 feet; total length about 44 feet. Sea Monsters Unmasked and Sea Fables Explained 2011-07-11T02:00:07.857Z Small or large, rigid or flexible; joined or tentacular—all one. Triplanetary The lamelliform organ upon the inner inferior tentacular lobe of Nautilus is possibly also olfactory in function. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" The shorter arms measured 8 ft. in length and 15 in. in circumference; the tentacular arms are said to have been 30 ft. long. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z Mrs. Tapping added that this was no common kitten, but one of preternatural activity, and possessed of diabolical tentacular powers of entanglement. When Ghost Meets Ghost These long, slender tentacular arms are expanded at their extremity, and the inner surface of their enlarged part is studded with suckers—some of them larger in size than those on the eight shorter arms. Sea Monsters Unmasked and Sea Fables Explained 2011-07-11T02:00:07.857Z They were huge as the one we had seen, with red shells, great ominous looking stalked eyes, luminous green tentacular antennae and knobbed claws on forelimbs. Astounding Stories, April, 1931 Decapoda.—Four pairs of ordinary non-retractile arms which are shorter than the body, and one pair of tentacular arms, situated between the third and fourth normal arms on each side and retractile within special pouches. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" Now the partners sat and looked out through the windows of unbreakable glass, watching the work of those tentacular fingers. Lords of the Stratosphere Its tentacular arms, he determined, must be at least thirty-five feet long; and when the boat came within that distance he shuddered. The Boy Scouts Book of Stories The shorter arms measure, each, eight feet in length, and fifteen inches round the base: the tentacular arms are said to have been thirty feet long. Sea Monsters Unmasked and Sea Fables Explained 2011-07-11T02:00:07.857Z They are highly intelligent, although the first colonists thought them wild animals; they communicate and manipulate objects with a pair of tentacular Y-shaped "tongues" that retract into cheek pouches when not in use. Concordance A Terran Empire concordance In various species of Cheiroteuthis the suckers on the tentacular arms are very feeble, but the bottom of the cup is covered by a number of anastomosed epithelial filaments which are used as a fishing-net. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" Immediately below each eye springs out a long, jointless, boneless, tentacular arm; an arm which at its extremity divides into eight delicate and sensitive, but very strong, fingers. Triplanetary Hirman Stanley, in a somewhat similar manner, pushes the intellectual element in ticklishness very far back and associates it with "tentacular experience." Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man Her soul dissolved in softness towards him; even the body seemed to melt also, till, instead of being a strong, sturdy girl, she was a living tentacular endearment and naught else. The Price of Love A lank tentacular appendage gripped the edge of the cylinder, another swayed in the air. The War of the Worlds Shell internal and chitinous, ending aborally in a little narrow cone; tentacular arms short and thick; suckers with denticulate rings. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" Dr. Syx was described as “a devil-fish sucking the veins of the planet and holding it helpless in the grasp of his tentacular billions.” The Moon Metal This Crinoid, with its innumerable tentacular arms, appears to have been frequently attached to the driftwood of the liassic sea, in the same manner as Barnacles float about on wood at the present day. The Student's Elements of Geology The plant was one of the species of cacti, and was provided with long, tentacular leaves that perpetually swayed with the slightest breeze with a peculiar beckoning motion. Waifs and Strays Part 1 The German state, "tentacular potency," would eclipse with its glory the most imposing empire of the past and present. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse Fins terminal; tentacular arms long; suckers with hooks. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" Veranya, body very short, tentacular arms atrophied in the adult, Mediterranean. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" |
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