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Of or pertaining to phonotypy; as, a phonotypic alphabet.

One versed in phonotypy.

A method of phonetic printing of the English language, as devised by Mr. Pitman, in which nearly all the ordinary letters and many new forms are employed in order to indicate each elementary sound by a separate character.

Without voice; voiceless; nonvocal.

Harsh-sounding.

An instrument resembling the organ in tine and the upright piano in form. It is characterized by great strength and sweetness of tone.

Euphonious. [R.]

Originally, sounding alike; of the same pitch; unisonous; monodic.

Having a loud voice.

Serving to augment the intensity of weak sounds; microcoustic.

The laws of organic formation.

Same as Polyphonic.

m of a spout through which water enters the gill cavity. The shell itself is not always siphonostomatous in this group.

ving a siphon, or siphons, to convey water to the gills; belonging or pertaining to the Siphonobranchiata. -- n.

A gonidium.

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 as reproductive zooids. See Illust. under Physallia, and Porpita.…

Belonging to the Siphonophora. -- n.

One of the Siphonophora.

A division of Scaphopoda including those in which the foot terminates in a circular disk.

An artificial division of gastropods including those that have siphonostomatous shells.