siphuncle

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A strand of tissue passing longitudinally through the shell of a cephalopod, used primarily in emptying water from new chambers as the shell grows.
    — An extra-salty siphuncle naturally absorbs water from the phragmocone chambers, and the empty space left behind is filled with gases diffusing out from the blood.
  2. A nectary.

词形变化

siphuncles plural

词汇关系

衍生词
endosiphuncle siphuncled siphuncular

词源

From Latin sīphunculus (“little tube”).
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