Siphon - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: siphonSiphonal
Of or pertaining to a siphon resembling a siphon...
Siphonate
Having a siphon or siphons...
Siphonic
Of or pertaining to a siphon...
Siphoid
A siphon bottle See under Siphon n...
VerbarSiphonata
A tribe of bivalve mollusks in which the posterior mantle border is prolonged into two tubes or siphons Called also Siphoniata See Siphon 2 a and Quahaug...
Siphonobranchiate
Having a siphon or siphons to convey water to the gills belonging or pertaining to the Siphonobranchiata...
Calamar
A cephalopod belonging to the genus Loligo and related genera There are many species They have a sack of inklike fluid which they discharge from the siphon tube when pursued or alarmed in order to confuse their enemies Their shell is a thin horny plate within the flesh of the back shaped very much like a quill pen In America they are called squids See Squid...
Phragmosiphon
The siphon of a phragmocone...
Prosiphon
A minute tube found in the protoconch of ammonites and not connected with the true siphon...
Siphon
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 discharging extremity of the pipe ia lower than the higher liquid surface and when no part of the pipe is higher above the surface than the same liquid will rise by atmospheric pressure that is about 33 feet for water and 30 inches for mercury near the sea level...
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