spiracle
IPA: spˈɪrʌkʌɫ
noun
- A pore or opening used (especially by arthropods and some fish) for respiration.
- The blowhole of a whale, dolphin or other similar species.
- Any small aperture or vent for air or other fluid.
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Examples of "spiracle" in Sentences
- Lateral view showing the spiracle.
- Petiolar spiracle at base of node.
- Its anterior spiracle and calypters are brown.
- A spiracle is a small hole found behind each eye.
- (In the spiracle is a miniature demibranch, the pseudo-branch.
- In most spiders the spiracle is just anterior to the spinnerets.
- The spiracle plates and button are also not heavily sclerotized.
- In profile, propodeal spiracle along margin of declivitous face.
- There is a broad ridges beneath each eye, and a spiracle behind.
- Spiracle function is controlled almost entirely by the nervous system.
- The tracheae of insects are attached to the spiracles, excluding the head.
- No, he breathes through his spiracle alone; and this is on the top of his head.
- At the end, which I was not long in reaching, a breath of wind suggested that what Gunnie had called a spiracle stretched from the roof to this place.
- At this stage the gills are still external, being apparent as red filaments, and, as usual, branchial filaments are also protruded through the spiracle.
- A very large dome, built with great care in the centre or pole, contains another small vault as it were rising out of it, and in this is a spiracle, which is right over the altar.
- However, insect body size increases in three-dimensions (length, breadth, and height); hence, body size increases more quickly than spiracle area as insects get larger and larger.
- A very large dome, built with great care in the cen - tre or pole, contains another small vault as it were rising out of it, and in this is a spiracle, which is right over the altar.
- In a corner of the Kings Palace, it being seated on a rising hill, a cave had long beene made in the body of the same hill, which received no light into it, but by a small spiracle or vent-loope, made out ingeniously on the hils side.
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