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- English Word Siphonage Definition The action of a siphon.
- English Word Siphonal Definition Of or pertaining to a siphon; resembling a siphon.
- English Word Siphonarid Definition Any one of numerous species of limpet-shaped pulmonate gastropods of the genus Siphonaria. They cling to rocks between high and low water marks and have both lunglike organs and gills.
- English Word Siphonata Definition A tribe of bivalve mollusks in which the posterior mantle border is prolonged into two tubes or siphons. Called also Siphoniata. See Siphon, 2 (a), and Quahaug.
- English Word Siphonate Definition Having a siphon or siphons.
- English Word Siphonate Definition Belonging to the Siphonata.
- English Word Siphonet Definition One of the two dorsal tubular organs on the hinder part of the abdomen of aphids. They give exit to the honeydew. See Illust. under Aphis.
- English Word Siphonia Definition A former name for a euphorbiaceous genus (Hevea) of South American trees, the principal source of caoutchouc.
- English Word Siphonia Definition of Siphonium
- English Word Siphoniata Definition Same as Siphonata.
- English Word Siphonic Definition Of or pertaining to a siphon.
- English Word Siphonifer Definition Any cephalopod having a siphonate shell.
- English Word Siphoniferous Definition Siphon-bearing, as the shell of the nautilus and other cephalopods.
- English Word Siphonium Definition A bony tube which, in some birds, connects the tympanium with the air chambers of the articular piece of the mandible.
- English Word Siphonobranchiata Definition A tribe of gastropods having the mantle border, on one or both sides, prolonged in the form of a spout through which water enters the gill cavity. The shell itself is not always siphonostomatous in this group.
- English Word Siphonobranchiate Definition Having a siphon, or siphons, to convey water to the gills; belonging or pertaining to the Siphonobranchiata.
- English Word Siphonobranchiate Definition One of the Siphonobranchiata.
- English Word Siphonoglyphe Definition A gonidium.
- English Word Siphonophora Definition An order of pelagic Hydrozoa including species which form complex free-swimming communities composed of numerous zooids of various kinds, some of which act as floats or as swimming organs, others as feeding or nutritive zooids, and others as reproductive zooids. See Illust. under Physallia, and Porpita.
- English Word Siphonophoran Definition Belonging to the Siphonophora.
- English Word Siphonophoran Definition One of the Siphonophora.
- English Word Siphonophore Definition One of the Siphonophora.
- English Word Siphonopoda Definition A division of Scaphopoda including those in which the foot terminates in a circular disk.
- English Word Siphonostomata Definition A tribe of parasitic copepod Crustacea including a large number of species that are parasites of fishes, as the lerneans. They have a mouth adapted to suck blood.
- English Word Siphonostomata Definition An artificial division of gastropods including those that have siphonostomatous shells.
- English Word Siphonostomatous Definition Having the front edge of the aperture of the shell prolonged in the shape of a channel for the protection of the siphon; -- said of certain gastropods.
- English Word Siphonostomatous Definition Pertaining to the Siphonostomata.
- English Word Siphonostome Definition Any parasitic entomostracan of the tribe Siphonostomata.
- English Word Siphonostome Definition A siphonostomatous shell.
- English Word Siphorhinal Definition Having tubular nostrils, as the petrels.