spiracle
11spiracle — noun /ˈspɪrəkəl/ a) A pore or opening used (especially by spiders and some fish) for breathing. b) The blowhole of a whale …
12spiracle — An aperture for breathing in arthropods and in sharks and related fishes. [L. spiraculum, fr. spiro, to breathe] * * * spir·a·cle (spirґə kəl) [L. spirare to breathe] a breathing orifice of arthropods; an accessory opening for the… …
13spiracle — (Order Isopoda): Opening to pseudotracheae on pleopods of certain terrestrial isopods [Stachowitsch, 1992] …
14spiracle — Synonyms and related words: air duct, air hole, air passage, air shaft, air tube, airway, armhole, avenue, blowhole, breathing hole, bullet hole, bunghole, channel, chute, cringle, deadeye, debouch, door, egress, emunctory, escape, estuary,… …
15spiracle — [ volcanic ] A small tubular opening or chimney formed by fluid lava congealing and mounding around a fumarolic vent in a basaltic lava flow, usually about 1 m in diameter and up to 5 m high, although in the northwestern USA where spiracles …
16spiracle — spi·ra·cle || spɪrÉ™kl / spaɪər n. air hole, opening which allows the passage of air; (Zoology) respiratory aperture (as in whales, sharks, spiders, etc.) …
17spiracle — [ spʌɪrək(ə)l] noun Zoology an external respiratory opening in insects, cartilaginous fish, and other animals. Derivatives spiracular adjective Origin C18: from L. spiraculum, from spirare breathe …
18spiracle — n. Aperture (especially in animal and vegetable bodies), blowhole, vent, orifice, pore …
19spiracle — spi·ra·cle …
20spiracle — spi•ra•cle [[t]ˈspaɪ rə kəl, ˈspɪr ə [/t]] n. 1) zool. a breathing hole; an opening by which a confined space has communication with the outer air; air hole; blowhole 2) zool. one of the external orifices of the respiratory system in certain… …
