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Definition of Siphonal
1. a. Of or pertaining to a siphon; resembling a siphon.
Definition of Siphonal
1. Adjective. (zoology) Resembling or relating to a siphon. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Siphonal
1. of or pertaining to a siphon [adj]
Medical Definition of Siphonal
1.
Of or pertaining to a siphon; resembling a siphon.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Siphonal
Literary usage of Siphonal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"... by the excurrent or superior siphonal notch of the mantle ... the stream which
sets into the sub-pallial chamber at the lower siphonal notch (fin fig. ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... of the shell occupied by the siphonal but probably the orifice of a gland ;
b, median line of foot. fresh-water, and some terrestrial forms. ..."
3. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association by Geologists' Association (1904)
"The anterior part of the siphonal surface bears feeble, transverse, ... A); there
is also on one side, a little nearer the siphonal than the ..."
4. Mosquito Eradication by Walter Ernest Hardenburg (1922)
"Scales 14-22, with stout apical and slender lateral spines; 13-18 siphonal spines
with 2 or 3 small teeth sometimes simple; fresh water, Aedes trivittatus. ..."
5. Mosquito Eradication by Walter Ernest Hardenburg (1922)
"Scales 14-22, with stout apical and slender lateral spines; 13-18 siphonal spines
with 2 or 3 small teeth sometimes simple; fresh water, ..."
6. The American Geologist by Newton Horace Winchell (1895)
"The branchial area proper is the space between this and the area occupied by the
siphons or siphonal openings. The siphonal area is sometimes quite ..."
7. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine, Taylor and Francis (1854)
"Siphons elongate, with large fan-shaped retractor muscles; siphonal inflection
... siphonal inflection deep, oblong, rather contracted at the outer edge, ..."
8. Maryland Geological Survey by Maryland Geological Survey (1916)
"Septa moderately closely arranged, or sometimes a little crowded; siphonal lobe
nearly twice as wide as long, and provided with two large terminal widely ..."
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