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Definition of siphon

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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..

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

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

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

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

Fury :: Fury (n.) pl. (Greek Myth.) The avenging deities, Tisiphone, Alecto, and Megaera; the Erinyes or Eumenides..

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

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

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

Siphonia :: Siphonia (pl. ) of Siphoniu.

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

Siphonifer :: Siphonifer (n.) Any cephalopod having a siphonate shell.

Siphoid :: Siphoid (n.) A siphon bottle. See under Siphon, n..

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..

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

Siphon :: Siphon (n.) A sproutlike prolongation in front of the mouth of many gephyreans.

Nectocalyx :: Nectocalyx (n.) One of the zooids of certain Siphonophora, having somewhat the form, and the essential structure, of the bell of a jellyfish, and acting as a swimming organ..

Physaliae :: Physaliae (n. pl.) An order of Siphonophora which includes Physalia.

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

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