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

Siphoid :: Siphoid (n.) A siphon bottle. See under Siphon, n..

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.

Asiphonata :: Asiphonata (n. pl.) Alt. of Asiphonid.

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

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

Infundibulum :: Infundibulum (n.) The siphon of Cephalopoda. See Cephalopoda.

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

Siphonia :: Siphonia (pl. ) of Siphoniu.

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

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..

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

Siphoniferous :: Siphoniferous (a.) Siphon-bearing, as the shell of the nautilus and other cephalopods..

Siphonophoran :: Siphonophoran (n.) One of the Siphonophora.

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

Siphonoglyphe :: Siphonoglyphe (n.) A gonidium.

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

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..

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..

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