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Asiphonate :: Asiphonate (a.) Destitute of a siphon or breathing tube; -- said of many bivalve shells.

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

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

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

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

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

Phragmosiphon :: Phragmosiphon (n.) The siphon of a phragmocone.

Siphonate :: Siphonate (a.) Belonging to the Siphonata.

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

Siphonostomata :: Siphonostomata (n. pl.) An artificial division of gastropods including those that have siphonostomatous shells.

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

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

Siphonage :: Siphonage (n.) The action of a siphon.

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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