Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of myriapods, typical of the unused family Siphonophoridæ.
- noun A notable genus of plantlice (Aphididæ), erected by Koch in 1855, having long nectaries, and the antennæ usnally longer than the body.
- noun Oceanic hydrozoans, a subclass of Hydrozoa or an order of Hydromedusæ, containing free pelagic forms in which hydriform persons and sterile mednsiform persons (in one family only the former) are united in colonies or aggregates under many special modifications, but definite and constant in each instance.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- proper noun plural (Zoöl.) 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. underphysallia , andporpita .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun A taxonomic
order within theclass Hydrozoa — thesiphonophores .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun marine colonial hydrozoans
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Examples
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[Illustration: BEAN APHIS = Aphis rumicis = (pupa and female)] = = The Pea Siphon-Aphis = = (= Siphonophora pisi =, Kalt).
The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition Sutton and Sons
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He has never thoroughly studied either the one-celled Protozoa, the Infusoria and Lobosa, nor the Coelenterata, the highly instructive Sponges, Hydroids, Medusæ, or Siphonophora; and thus he is wanting in those genetic principles of comparative zoology on which our theory rests.
Freie wissenschaft und freie lehr. English Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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Beyond a doubt the whole stock or polity of Siphonophora has a very definite united will and a united sensibility, and yet each of the individual persons of which this stock (or Cormus) is composed has its own personal will and its own particular sensations.
Freie wissenschaft und freie lehr. English Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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Siphonophora stock originated, by association and division of labour, out of these united Medusa communities.
Freie wissenschaft und freie lehr. English Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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[Illustration: PEA SIPHON-APHIS = Siphonophora pisi =]
The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition Sutton and Sons
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Their relations are strikingly illustrated in the instructive group of Siphonophora, as I have briefly shown in my article on "The Cell-soul and Soul-cells" (Deutsche Rundschau, July
Freie wissenschaft und freie lehr. English Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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