Word Meanings - SIPHONIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to a siphon.

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• SIPHONOGLYPHE
  A gonidium.
• SIPHONOSTOMATOUS
  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. Pertaining to the Siphonostomata.
• SIPHONIATA
  See SIPHONATA
• SIPHONATA
  A tribe of bivalve mollusks in which the posterior mantle border is prolonged into two tubes or siphons. Called also Siphoniata. See Siphon, 2 , and Quahaug.
• SIPHONOBRANCHIATA
  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.
• SIPHONET
  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.
• SIPHONIA
  A former name for a euphorbiaceous genus of South American trees, the principal source of caoutchouc.
• SIPHONOBRANCHIATE
  Having a siphon, or siphons, to convey water to the gills; belonging or pertaining to the Siphonobranchiata. -- n.
• SIPHONIC
  Of or pertaining to a siphon.
• SIPHONATE
  Belonging to the Siphonata. (more info) 1. Having a siphon or siphons.
• SIPHONAL
  Of or pertaining to a siphon; resembling a siphon. Siphonal stomach , a stomach which is tubular and bent back upon itself, like a siphon, as in the salmon.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• SIPHONOPHORA
  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
• SIPHONOSTOMATA
  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. An artificial division of gastropods including those that have siphonostomatous
• SIPHONARID
  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. -- Si`pho*na"rid, a.
• SIPHONOPHORAN
  Belonging to the Siphonophora. -- n.
• SIPHONIUM
  A bony tube which, in some birds, connects the tympanium with the air chambers of the articular piece of the mandible.
• SIPHONIFER
  Any cephalopod having a siphonate shell.
• SIPHONOPODA
  A division of Scaphopoda including those in which the foot terminates in a circular disk.
• SIPHONOPHORE
  One of the Siphonophora.
• PROSIPHON
  A minute tube found in the protocon
• PHRAGMOSIPHON
  The siphon of a phragmocone.