Word Meanings - SIPHONAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

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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.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• TUBULARIAN
  Any hydroid belonging to the suborder Tubularida. Note: These hydroids usually form tufts of delicate tubes, and both gonophores and hydranths are naked. The gonophores of many of the species become free jellyfishes; those of other species remain
• STOMACHAL
  1. Of or pertaining to the stomach; gastric. 2. Helping the stomach; stomachic; cordial.
• STOMACH
  1. To resent; to remember with anger; to dislike. Shak. The lion began to show his teeth, and to stomach the affront. L'Estrange. The Parliament sit in that body . . . to be his counselors and dictators, though he stomach it. Milton. 2. To bear
• STOMACHY
  Obstinate; sullen; haughty. A little, bold, solemn, stomachy man, a great professor of piety. R. L. Stevenson.
• 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.
• STOMACHER
  1. One who stomachs.
• STOMACHFUL
  Willfully obstinate; stubborn; perverse. -- Stom"ach*ful*ly, adv. -- Stom"ach*ful*ness, n.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• TUBULARIAE
  See TUBULARIDA
• STOMACHING
  Resentment.
• STOMACHOUS
  Stout; sullen; obstinate. With stern looks and stomachous disdain. Spenser.
• PROSIPHON
  A minute tube found in the protocon
• HIGH-STOMACHED
  Having a lofty spirit; haughty. Shak.
• INTERTUBULAR
  Between tubes or tubules; as, intertubular cells; intertubular substance.