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

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

Siphonobranchiata :: Siphonobranchiata (n. pl.) A tribe of gastropods having the mantle border, on one or both sides, prolonged in the form of a spout through which water enters the gill cavity. The shell itself is not always siphonostomatous in this group..

Siphonoglyphe :: Siphonoglyphe (n.) A gonidium.

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..

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

Siphoniferous :: Siphoniferous (a.) Siphon-bearing, as the shell of the nautilus and other cephalopods..

Siphonal :: Siphonal (a.) Of or pertaining to a siphon; resembling a siphon.

Physalia :: Physalia (n.) A genus of large oceanic Siphonophora which includes the Portuguese man-of-war.

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..

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

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

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

Siphonostomatous :: Siphonostomatous (a.) Pertaining to the Siphonostomata.

Siphonobranchiate :: Siphonobranchiate (a.) Having a siphon, or siphons, to convey water to the gills; belonging or pertaining to the Siphonobranchiata..

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

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

Siphonostomata :: Siphonostomata (n. pl.) A tribe of parasitic copepod Crustacea including a large number of species that are parasites of fishes, as the lerneans. They have a mouth adapted to suck blood..

Crane :: Crane (n.) A siphon, or bent pipe, for drawing liquors out of a cask..

Involucrum :: Involucrum (n.) A sheath which surrounds the base of the lasso cells in the Siphonophora.

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