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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.

f the aperture of the shell prolonged in the shape of a channel for the protection of the siphon; -- said of certain gastropods.

Any parasitic entomostracan of the tribe Siphonostomata.

Having tubular nostrils, as the petrels.

A siphorhinal bird.

The tube which runs through the partitions of chambered cephalopod shells.

Having a siphuncle; siphunculated.

Of or pertaining to the siphuncle.

Having a siphuncle. Huxley.

Having a taste or flavorl savory; sapid. [Obs.] Cockeram.

One whi sips.

of toasted or fried bread cut into some special shape and used for garnishing. Your sweet sippets in widows' houses. Milton.

To sip often. [Obs. or Scot.]

Sipping often. [Obs.] "Taken after a sippling sort." Holland.

A suborder of Gephyrea, including those which have the body unarmed and the intestine opening anteriorly.