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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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Asiphonea
::
Asiphonea
(n. pl.) Alt. of
Asiphonid.
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
Siphonophoran
::
Siphonophoran
(a.)
Belonging
to the
Siphonophora.
Siphon
::
Siphon
(n.) A
siphon
bottle.
Physophorae
::
Physophorae
(n. pl.) An order of
Siphonophora,
furnished
with an air sac, or
float,
and a
series
of
nectocalyces.
See
Illust.
under
Nectocalyx..
Physograde
::
Physograde
(n.) Any
siphonophore
which has an air sac for a
float,
as the
Physalia..
Diphyozooid
::
Diphyozooid
(n.) One of the
free-swimming
sexual
zooids
of
Siphonophora.
Siphon
::
Siphon
(n.) One of the tubes or folds of the
mantle
border
of a
bivalve
or
gastropod
mollusk
by which water is
conducted
into the gill
cavity.
See
Illust.
under Mya, and
Lamellibranchiata..
Siphonostome
::
Siphonostome
(n.) Any
parasitic
entomostracan
of the tribe
Siphonostomata.
Siphonostome
::
Siphonostome
(n.) A
siphonostomatous
shell.
Pneumatocyst
::
Pneumatocyst
(n.) A cyst or sac of a
siphonophore,
containing
air, and
serving
as a
float,
as in
Physalia..
Siphonet
::
Siphonet
(n.) One of the two
dorsal
tubular
organs
on the
hinder
part of the
abdomen
of
aphids.
They give exit to the
honeydew.
See
Illust.
under
Aphis.
Siphonobranchiate
::
Siphonobranchiate
(a.)
Having
a
siphon,
or
siphons,
to
convey
water to the
gills;
belonging
or
pertaining
to the
Siphonobranchiata..
Siphonostomata
::
Siphonostomata
(n. pl.) An
artificial
division
of
gastropods
including
those that have
siphonostomatous
shells.
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.
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..
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.
Gynophore
::
Gynophore
(n.) One of the
branches
bearing
the
female
gonophores,
in
certain
Siphonophora..
Tube-shell
::
Tube-shell
(n.) Any
bivalve
mollusk
which
secretes
a
shelly
tube
around
its
siphon,
as the
watering-shell..
Nectostem
::
Nectostem
(n.) That
portion
of the axis which bears the
nectocalyces
in the
Siphonophora.
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