siphuncule

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A tube that connects adjacent chambers in the shells of some cephalopods.

词形变化

siphuncules plural siphunculus alternative

词源

From Latin sīphunculus (“little tube”), from sīphō (“tube, pipe”) + -culus (diminutive suffix), from Ancient Greek σίφων (síphōn), of uncertain and possibly non-Indo-European Mediterranean substrate origin.
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