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Siphonostomata :: Siphonostomata (n. pl.) An artificial division of gastropods including those that have siphonostomatous shells.

Hydrophyllium :: Hydrophyllium (n.) One of the flat, leaflike, protective zooids, covering other zooids of certain Siphonophora..

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

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

Asiphonida :: Asiphonida (n. pl.) A group of bivalve mollusks destitute of siphons, as the oyster; the asiphonate mollusks..

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

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

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

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..

Calamary :: Calamary (n.) A cephalopod, belonging to the genus Loligo and related genera. There are many species. They have a sack of inklike fluid which they discharge from the siphon tube, when pursued or alarmed, in order to confuse their enemies. Their shell is a thin horny plate, within the flesh of the back, shaped very much like a quill pen. In America they are called squids. See Squid..

Pneumatocyst :: Pneumatocyst (n.) A cyst or sac of a siphonophore, containing air, and serving as a float, as in Physalia..

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

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

Siphonarid :: Siphonarid (n.) Any one of numerous species of limpet-shaped pulmonate gastropods of the genus Siphonaria. They cling to rocks between high and low water marks and have both lunglike organs and gills.

Siphon :: Siphon (n.) The anterior prolongation of the margin of any gastropod shell for the protection of the soft siphon.

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

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

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

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

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

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