siphon's Usage Examples:

A very curious function sometimes discharged by the antennules or antennae of Decapods is that of forming a respiratory siphon in sand-burrowing species.

The necklace became a curse, one that siphoned off much of my power but also allowed me to live.

It certainly supports his view to discover, on subjecting to a careful investigation Botrydium granulatum, a siphonaceous alga whose varied forms had been described by J.

Pipework connecting discharge appliances to SVP manifold, should be designed not to cause self siphonage.

- Foot byssiferous; siphons short, invertible.

Shell turriculated, with elongated spire; proboscis short; siphon rudimentary.

- Mantle with a fourth aperture; siphons long, quite separate, completely retractile and invertible.

siphoning off profits and leaving farmers and miners all the poorer.

siphoning money into a secret bank account.

- Water-scorpion (Nepa cinerea) with raptorial fore-legs, heteropterous wings, and long siphon for conveying air to spiracles.

a, Siphonal notch of the shell e, Everted buccal introvert (prooccupied by the siphonal boscis).

Synonyms:

syphon, draw, take out, siphon off,

Antonyms:

sacred, sit, stand, downgrade, upgrade,