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Definition of siphon
Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of siphon is as below...
Siphon
(n.) A
device,
consisting
of a pipe or tube bent so as to form two
branches
or legs of
unequal
length,
by which a
liquid
can be
transferred
to a lower
level,
as from one
vessel
to
another,
over an
intermediate
elevation,
by the
action
of the
pressure
of the
atmosphere
in
forcing
the
liquid
up the
shorter
branch
of the pipe
immersed
in it, while the
continued
excess
of
weight
of the
liquid
in the
longer
branch
(when once
filled)
causes
a
continuous
flow. The flow takes place only when the
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Asiphonea
::
Asiphonea
(n. pl.) Alt. of
Asiphonid.
Somatocyst
::
Somatocyst
(n.) A
cavity
in the
primary
nectocalyx
of
certain
Siphonophora.
See
Illust.
under
Nectocalyx.
Gynophore
::
Gynophore
(n.) One of the
branches
bearing
the
female
gonophores,
in
certain
Siphonophora..
Siphon
::
Siphon
(n.) The
tubular
organ
through
which water is
ejected
from the gill
cavity
of a
cephaloid.
It
serves
as a
locomotive
organ,
by
guiding
and
confining
the jet of
water.
Called
also
siphuncle.
See
Illust.
under
Loligo,
and
Dibranchiata..
Siphonostomatous
::
Siphonostomatous
(a.)
Pertaining
to the
Siphonostomata.
Tube-shell
::
Tube-shell
(n.) Any
bivalve
mollusk
which
secretes
a
shelly
tube
around
its
siphon,
as the
watering-shell..
Siphonostomata
::
Siphonostomata
(n. pl.) 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..
Siphonage
::
Siphonage
(n.) The
action
of a
siphon.
Dactylozooid
::
Dactylozooid
(n.) A kind of zooid of
Siphonophora
which has an
elongated
or even
vermiform
body, with one
tentacle,
but no
mouth.
See
Siphonophora..
Asiphonate
::
Asiphonate
(n.) An
asiphonate
mollusk.
Asiphonida
::
Asiphonida
(n. pl.) A group of
bivalve
mollusks
destitute
of
siphons,
as the
oyster;
the
asiphonate
mollusks..
Siphon
::
Siphon
(n.) The
anterior
prolongation
of the
margin
of any
gastropod
shell for the
protection
of the soft
siphon.
Porpita
::
Porpita
(n.) A genus of
bright-colored
Siphonophora
found
floating
in the
warmer
parts of the
ocean.
The
individuals
are round and
disk-shaped,
with a large zooid in the
center
of the under side,
surrounded
by
smaller
nutritive
and
reproductive
zooids,
and by
slender
dactylozooids
near the
margin.
The disk
contains
a
central
float,
or
pneumatocyst..
Polypite
::
Polypite
(n.) One of the
feeding
zooids,
or
polyps,
of a
coral,
hydroid,
or
siphonophore;
a
hydranth.
See
Illust.
of
Campanularian..
Siphonate
::
Siphonate
(a.)
Having
a
siphon
or
siphons.
Physalia
::
Physalia
(n.) A genus of large
oceanic
Siphonophora
which
includes
the
Portuguese
man-of-war.
Pneumatocyst
::
Pneumatocyst
(n.) A cyst or sac of a
siphonophore,
containing
air, and
serving
as a
float,
as in
Physalia..
Physophorae
::
Physophorae
(n. pl.) An order of
Siphonophora,
furnished
with an air sac, or
float,
and a
series
of
nectocalyces.
See
Illust.
under
Nectocalyx..
Siphon
::
Siphon
(n.) A
tubular
organ
connected
both with the
esophagus
and the
intestine
of
certain
sea
urchins
and
annelids.
Siphon
::
Siphon
(v. t.) To
convey,
or draw off, by means of a
siphon,
as a
liquid
from one
vessel
to
another
at a lower
level..
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