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

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

Siphoniata :: Siphoniata (n. pl.) Same as Siphonata.

Hydrozoa :: Hydrozoa (n. pl.) The Acalephae; one of the classes of coelenterates, including the Hydroidea, Discophora, and Siphonophora..

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

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

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..

Parasita :: Parasita (n. pl.) A division of copepod Crustacea, having a sucking mouth, as the lerneans. They are mostly parasites on fishes. Called also 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..

Tube :: Tube (n.) One of the siphons of a bivalve mollusk.

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

Siphonophora :: Siphonophora (n. pl.) An order of pelagic Hydrozoa including species which form complex free-swimming communities composed of numerous zooids of various kinds, some of which act as floats or as swimming organs, others as feeding or nutritive zooids, and others as reproductive zooids. See Illust. under Physallia, and Porpita..

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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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