hyponome

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A tubular organ of a cephalopod, used to expel water.
    — Ordinarily, it swims forward, but the hyponome can give an emergency spritz, sending the hydrodynamic cone floating backwards at speed with a powerful jet through long thin streamers of brown seaweed and clouds of scattering shrimp.

词形变化

hyponomes plural

词源

From Ancient Greek ὑπονομή (huponomḗ, “underground passage”).
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