Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
inhalant .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Used for inhaling.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Used for
inhaling .
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Examples
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The Weapon the American CIA released is historically documented as being a rare form of African Influenza which would cause a large number of inhalent victums to make hospital and doctor visits.
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North American freshwater clams release sperm into the water column where it is ingested by the inhalent siphon of a neighboring female clam.
Mollusca 2007
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I popped out of the inhalent tent and was firmly pushed back under again.
Two For The Lions Davis, Lindsey 1998
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The inhalent pores are very minute, and open into small subdermal cavities which communicate by means of interradial tubes with the ciliated chambers, the latter being very small ramifications of the interradial channels, and in them the movement causing the current of water is maintained.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 601, July 9, 1887 Various
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It is not known exactly what the sponge lives upon, but if upon other animals they must be necessarily very small, owing to the size of its inhalent pores.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 601, July 9, 1887 Various
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One set of muscles affect the size of the inhalent pores, causing them to contract or expand, while another set are able to close the pores altogether, thus acting as a protection from the attack of an enemy.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 601, July 9, 1887 Various
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Whence it follows that the impulse by which the blood is propelled is a _vis à tergo_, and that the blood is not drawn into the heart by any such inhalent or suctorial action as not only the predecessors, but many of the successors, of Harvey imagined it to possess.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 John [Editor] Rudd 1885
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North American freshwater clams release sperm into the water column where it is ingested by the inhalent siphon of a neighboring female clam.
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Emergency services personnel originally thought the chemical on board the tractor trailer was a highly toxic inhalent.
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