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

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..

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

Siphonostome :: Siphonostome (n.) A siphonostomatous shell.

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..

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

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

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

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

Siphon :: Siphon (n.) The siphuncle of a cephalopod shell.

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

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

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

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..

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

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

Siphonoglyphe :: Siphonoglyphe (n.) A gonidium.

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

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

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