spiracle
71Outline of sharks — A great white shark at Isla Guadalupe, Mexico Sharks (superorder Selachimorpha) are a type of fish with a full cartilaginous skeleton and a highly streamlined body. The earliest known sharks date from more than 420 million years ago, before the… …
72Soap&Skin — (2011) Soap Skin ist der Künstler und Projektname der österreichischen Musikerin, Sängerin und Schauspielerin Anja Franziska Plaschg (* 5. April 1990 in Gnas, Oststeiermark) …
73ANIMAL (RÈGNE) - Évolution animale — La notion d’histoire du règne animal est relativement récente dans la pensée scientifique. Après la Renaissance, les premiers naturalistes cherchaient seulement à mettre de l’ordre dans nos connaissances en comparant les caractères des divers… …
74SPLANCHNOCRÂNE — Le splanchnocrâne, ou squelette viscéral, est constitué, chez les Vertébrés inférieurs, par les pièces, cartilagineuses ou ossifiées, qui soutiennent la région pharyngienne en prenant appui sur la partie postérieure du neurocrâne ou sur les… …
75spatter cone — A small, steep sided cone (e.g., 3 to 15 m high, or more) built up on a lava flow, usually pahoehoe, composed of clots of lava ejected with escaping gases from a vent or fissure which spatters and congeals as it hits the ground to form a small …
76blowhole — noun 1. the spiracle of a cetacean located far back on the skull • Hypernyms: ↑spiracle • Part Holonyms: ↑cetacean, ↑cetacean mammal, ↑blower 2. a hole for the escape of gas or air • Syn: ↑ …
77spi|ra|cle — «SPY ruh kuh, SPIHR uh », noun. 1. a small opening for breathing. Insects take in air through tiny spiracles. A whale breathes through a spiracle in the top of its head. A shark or ray gives off water through a spiracle. 2. an opening in the… …
78Blowhole — Blow hole , n. 1. A cavern in a cliff, at the water level, opening to the air at its farther extremity, so that the waters rush in with each surge and rise in a lofty jet from the extremity. [1913 Webster] 2. A nostril or spiracle in the top of… …
79Nostril — Nos tril, n. [OE. nosethril, nosethirl, AS. nos[thorn]yrl; nos for nosu nose + [thorn]yrel opening, hole, from [thorn]yrel pierced, for [thorn]yrhel, fr. purh through. [root]261. See {Nose}, and {Through}, and cf. {Thrill}.] [1913 Webster] 1.… …
80Spiracular — Spi*rac u*lar, a. Of or pertaining to a spiracle. [1913 Webster] …
