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Siphon :: Siphon (n.) The sucking proboscis of certain parasitic insects and crustaceans.

Caoutchouc :: Caoutchouc (n.) A tenacious, elastic, gummy substance obtained from the milky sap of several plants of tropical South America (esp. the euphorbiaceous tree Siphonia elastica or Hevea caoutchouc), Asia, and Africa. Being impermeable to liquids and gases, and not readly affected by exposure to air, acids, and alkalies, it is used, especially when vulcanized, for many purposes in the arts and in manufactures. Also called India rubber (because it was first brought from India, and was formerly used c

Physaliae :: Physaliae (n. pl.) An order of Siphonophora which includes Physalia.

Siphonostomatous :: Siphonostomatous (a.) 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.

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..

Siphonobranchiate :: Siphonobranchiate (n.) One of the Siphonobranchiata.

Tube :: Tube (n.) One of the siphons of a bivalve mollusk.

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..

Calamary :: Calamary (n.) A cephalopod, belonging to the genus Loligo and related genera. There are many species. They have a sack of inklike fluid which they discharge from the siphon tube, when pursued or alarmed, in order to confuse their enemies. Their shell is a thin horny plate, within the flesh of the back, shaped very much like a quill pen. In America they are called squids. See Squid..

Involucrum :: Involucrum (n.) A sheath which surrounds the base of the lasso cells in the Siphonophora.

Siphonostome :: Siphonostome (n.) A siphonostomatous shell.

Hydrozoa :: Hydrozoa (n. pl.) The Acalephae; one of the classes of coelenterates, including the Hydroidea, Discophora, and Siphonophora..

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

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

Siphon :: Siphon (n.) A tubular organ connected both with the esophagus and the intestine of certain sea urchins and annelids.

Siphonium :: Siphonium (n.) A bony tube which, in some birds, connects the tympanium with the air chambers of the articular piece of the mandible..

Fury :: Fury (n.) pl. (Greek Myth.) The avenging deities, Tisiphone, Alecto, and Megaera; the Erinyes or Eumenides..

Siphonopoda :: Siphonopoda (n. pl.) A division of Scaphopoda including those in which the foot terminates in a circular disk.

Gynophore :: Gynophore (n.) One of the branches bearing the female gonophores, in certain Siphonophora..

Pneumatocyst :: Pneumatocyst (n.) A cyst or sac of a siphonophore, containing air, and serving as a float, as in Physalia..

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