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Siphon :: Siphon (n.) One of the tubes or folds of the mantle border of a bivalve or gastropod mollusk by which water is conducted into the gill cavity. See Illust. under Mya, and Lamellibranchiata..

Limpet :: Limpet (n.) Any species of Siphonaria, a genus of limpet-shaped Pulmonifera, living between tides, on rocks..

Siphon :: 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

Siphonia :: Siphonia (n.) A former name for a euphorbiaceous genus (Hevea) of South American trees, the principal source of caoutchouc..

Somatocyst :: Somatocyst (n.) A cavity in the primary nectocalyx of certain Siphonophora. See Illust. under Nectocalyx.

Siphoniata :: Siphoniata (n. pl.) Same as Siphonata.

Taster :: Taster (n.) One of a peculiar kind of zooids situated on the polyp-stem of certain Siphonophora. They somewhat resemble the feeding zooids, but are destitute of mouths. See Siphonophora..

Physalia :: Physalia (n.) A genus of large oceanic Siphonophora which includes the Portuguese man-of-war.

Siphonia :: Siphonia (pl. ) of Siphoniu.

Siphonic :: Siphonic (a.) Of or pertaining to a siphon.

Polypite :: Polypite (n.) One of the feeding zooids, or polyps, of a coral, hydroid, or siphonophore; a hydranth. See Illust. of Campanularian..

Crane :: Crane (n.) A siphon, or bent pipe, for drawing liquors out of a cask..

Physograde :: Physograde (n.) Any siphonophore which has an air sac for a float, as the Physalia..

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..

Parasita :: Parasita (n. pl.) A division of copepod Crustacea, having a sucking mouth, as the lerneans. They are mostly parasites on fishes. Called also Siphonostomata..

Prosiphon :: Prosiphon (n.) A minute tube found in the protoconch of ammonites, and not connected with the true siphon..

Asiphonida :: Asiphonida (n. pl.) A group of bivalve mollusks destitute of siphons, as the oyster; the asiphonate mollusks..

Siphonate :: Siphonate (a.) Having a siphon or siphons.

Tube-shell :: Tube-shell (n.) Any bivalve mollusk which secretes a shelly tube around its siphon, as the watering-shell..

Siphonostome :: Siphonostome (n.) Any parasitic entomostracan of the tribe Siphonostomata.

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