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Definition of siphon
Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of siphon is as below...
Siphon
(v. t.) To
convey,
or draw off, by means of a
siphon,
as a
liquid
from one
vessel
to
another
at a lower
level..
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Siphon
::
Siphon
(n.) The
sucking
proboscis
of
certain
parasitic
insects
and
crustaceans.
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..
Siphonophoran
::
Siphonophoran
(n.) One of the
Siphonophora.
Asiphonate
::
Asiphonate
(n.) An
asiphonate
mollusk.
Siphonate
::
Siphonate
(a.)
Belonging
to the
Siphonata.
Siphonobranchiate
::
Siphonobranchiate
(a.)
Having
a
siphon,
or
siphons,
to
convey
water to the
gills;
belonging
or
pertaining
to the
Siphonobranchiata..
Sprack
::
Spoutshell
(n.) Any
marine
gastropod
shell of the genus
Apporhais
having
an
elongated
siphon.
See
Illust.
under
Rostrifera.
Physograde
::
Physograde
(n.) Any
siphonophore
which has an air sac for a
float,
as the
Physalia..
Physalia
::
Physalia
(n.) A genus of large
oceanic
Siphonophora
which
includes
the
Portuguese
man-of-war.
Siphonopoda
::
Siphonopoda
(n. pl.) A
division
of
Scaphopoda
including
those in which the foot
terminates
in a
circular
disk.
Siphon
::
Siphon
(n.) A
device,
consisting
of a pipe or tube bent so as to form two
branches
or legs of
unequal
length,
by which a
liquid
can be
transferred
to a lower
level,
as from one
vessel
to
another,
over an
intermediate
elevation,
by the
action
of the
pressure
of the
atmosphere
in
forcing
the
liquid
up the
shorter
branch
of the pipe
immersed
in it, while the
continued
excess
of
weight
of the
liquid
in the
longer
branch
(when once
filled)
causes
a
continuous
flow. The flow takes place only when the
Siphonium
::
Siphonium
(n.) A bony tube
which,
in some
birds,
connects
the
tympanium
with the air
chambers
of the
articular
piece of the
mandible..
Hydrophyllium
::
Hydrophyllium
(n.) One of the flat,
leaflike,
protective
zooids,
covering
other
zooids
of
certain
Siphonophora..
Siphonophoran
::
Siphonophoran
(a.)
Belonging
to the
Siphonophora.
Involucrum
::
Involucrum
(n.) A
sheath
which
surrounds
the base of the lasso cells in the
Siphonophora.
Crane
::
Crane (n.) A
siphon,
or bent pipe, for
drawing
liquors
out of a
cask..
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..
Siphonostome
::
Siphonostome
(n.) Any
parasitic
entomostracan
of the tribe
Siphonostomata.
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..
Tube-shell
::
Tube-shell
(n.) Any
bivalve
mollusk
which
secretes
a
shelly
tube
around
its
siphon,
as the
watering-shell..
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