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Porpita :: Porpita (n.) A genus of bright-colored Siphonophora found floating in the warmer parts of the ocean. The individuals are round and disk-shaped, with a large zooid in the center of the under side, surrounded by smaller nutritive and reproductive zooids, and by slender dactylozooids near the margin. The disk contains a central float, or pneumatocyst..

Siphonifer :: Siphonifer (n.) Any cephalopod having a siphonate shell.

Hydrophyllium :: Hydrophyllium (n.) One of the flat, leaflike, protective zooids, covering other zooids of certain Siphonophora..

Siphon :: Siphon (n.) A sproutlike prolongation in front of the mouth of many gephyreans.

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

Siphonia :: Siphonia (pl. ) of Siphoniu.

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

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

Siphonic :: Siphonic (a.) Of or pertaining to a siphon.

Siphonostomatous :: Siphonostomatous (a.) Pertaining to the Siphonostomata.

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..

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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..

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

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..

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