English Explanatory Dictionary

siphuncule

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A tube that connects adjacent chambers in the shells of some cephalopods.

Word forms

siphuncule siphuncules siphunculus

Etymology

From Latin sīphunculus (“little tube”), from sīphō (“tube, pipe”) + -culus (diminutive suffix), from Ancient Greek σίφων (síphōn), of uncertain and possibly non-Indo-European Mediterranean substrate origin.

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