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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Polypite :: Polypite (n.) One of the feeding zooids, or polyps, of a coral, hydroid, or siphonophore; a hydranth. See Illust. of Campanularian..

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

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.

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

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

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

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..

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..

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

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

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

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..

Siphonopoda :: Siphonopoda (n. pl.) A division of Scaphopoda including those in which the foot terminates in a circular disk.

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