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Asiphonata :: Asiphonata (n. pl.) Alt. of Asiphonid.

Siphonia :: Siphonia (n.) A former name for a euphorbiaceous genus (Hevea) of South American trees, the principal source of caoutchouc..

Physophorae :: Physophorae (n. pl.) An order of Siphonophora, furnished with an air sac, or float, and a series of nectocalyces. See Illust. under Nectocalyx..

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..

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

Tube-shell :: Tube-shell (n.) Any bivalve mollusk which secretes a shelly tube around its siphon, as the watering-shell..

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

Siphon :: Siphon (n.) A siphon bottle.

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

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

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

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..

Siphonia :: Siphonia (pl. ) of Siphoniu.

Asiphonate :: Asiphonate (n.) An asiphonate mollusk.

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..

Gynophore :: Gynophore (n.) One of the branches bearing the female gonophores, in certain Siphonophora..

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

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

Siphon :: 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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