siphunculated
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin sīphunculus + -ated.[1]
Adjective
[edit]siphunculated (not comparable)
- (zoology) Having a siphuncle.
- 1877, Thomas Henry Huxley, A Manual of the anatomy of vertebrated animals:
- Cephalopods may have very various forms , and may even be chambered and siphunculated; but , in this case , the chamber nearest the mouth of the shell is small , and incapable of lodging the viscera
References
[edit]- “siphunculated”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- ^ “siphunculated, adj.”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.