Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun PL siphunculi (-li). In entomology, a siphuncle.
- noun [capitalized] See
Sipunadus .
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- noun Alternative form of
siphuncule .
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The animal is said to inhabit only the uppermost or open chamber, which is larger than the rest; and that the rest remain empty except that the pipe, or siphunculus, which communicates from one to the other of them is filled with an appendage of the animal like a gut or string.
The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation Erasmus Darwin 1766
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