Definition of siphon

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Siphon (n.) The anterior prolongation of the margin of any gastropod shell for the protection of the soft siphon.

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Siphon :: Siphon (n.) The siphuncle of a cephalopod shell.
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..
Siphonopoda :: Siphonopoda (n. pl.) A division of Scaphopoda including those in which the foot terminates in a circular disk.
Crane :: Crane (n.) A siphon, or bent pipe, for drawing liquors out of a cask..
Prosiphon :: Prosiphon (n.) A minute tube found in the protoconch of ammonites, and not connected with the true siphon..
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..
Siphonage :: Siphonage (n.) The action of a siphon.
Siphonate :: Siphonate (a.) Having a siphon or siphons.
Nectocalyx :: Nectocalyx (n.) One of the zooids of certain Siphonophora, having somewhat the form, and the essential structure, of the bell of a jellyfish, and acting as a swimming organ..
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..
Siphonostomata :: Siphonostomata (n. pl.) An artificial division of gastropods including those that have siphonostomatous shells.
Pallet :: Pallet (n.) One of a pair of shelly plates that protect the siphon tubes of certain bivalves, as the Teredo. See Illust. of Teredo..
Siphonarid :: Siphonarid (n.) 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.
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..
Siphonifer :: Siphonifer (n.) Any cephalopod having a siphonate shell.
Siphonobranchiata :: Siphonobranchiata (n. pl.) 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..
Siphonia :: Siphonia (n.) A former name for a euphorbiaceous genus (Hevea) of South American trees, the principal source of caoutchouc..
Infundibulum :: Infundibulum (n.) The siphon of Cephalopoda. See Cephalopoda.
Asiphonata :: Asiphonata (n. pl.) Alt. of Asiphonid.
Tube :: Tube (n.) One of the siphons of a bivalve mollusk.
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