Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A less correct form of
exhalant .
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Examples
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At this time, the larvae are shot into the water from the exhalent siphon.
Mollusca 2007
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They are minute corks, if we may use the term, of coagulated lymp, which close the orifices of some of the pores or exhalent vessels of the skin.
Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 Barkham Burroughs
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It may also allow an assessment of the amount of particulate matter in the exhalent current that might indicate that the gills need cleaning.
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The limbs studied, called maxillipeds, move rhythmically to deflect the exhalent water currents emerging from the gills.
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At this time, the larvae are shot into the water from the exhalent siphon.
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[66] A most singular sign of this function is given to the chemistry of the changes, according to a French botanist, to whose carefully and richly illustrated volume I shall in future often refer my readers, "Vers l'époque de la maturité, les fruits _exhalent de l'acide carbonique_.
Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers John Ruskin 1859
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