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...

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

Nectostem :: Nectostem (n.) That portion of the axis which bears the nectocalyces in the Siphonophora.

Siphonata :: Siphonata (n. pl.) 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..

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

Siphonal :: Siphonal (a.) Of or pertaining to a siphon; resembling a siphon.

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

Velella :: Velella (n.) Any species of oceanic Siphonophora belonging to the genus Velella.

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

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..

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

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

Androphore :: Androphore (n.) The part which in some Siphonophora bears the male gonophores.

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

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..

Sprack :: Spoutshell (n.) Any marine gastropod shell of the genus Apporhais having an elongated siphon. See Illust. under Rostrifera.

Siphonophoran :: Siphonophoran (a.) Belonging to the Siphonophora.

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

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

Diphyozooid :: Diphyozooid (n.) One of the free-swimming sexual zooids of Siphonophora.

Siphonobranchiate :: Siphonobranchiate (a.) Having a siphon, or siphons, to convey water to the gills; belonging or pertaining to the Siphonobranchiata..

Random Fonts

Most Popular