Siphonida (sifonida)

pl. [NL., In some birds the air is conducted from the tympanum to the articular piece of the mandible by a special bony tube, the siphonium . Huxley , Anat. Vert., p. 272. siphon le (si'fon-les), a. [ Having no siphon; a siphonate. siphon-mouthed (si'fon-moutht), a. Having a mouth fitted for sucking the juices of plants: specifically noting homopterous insects. See siphonostomatous. Siphonobranchiata (si fō-nō-brang-ki-a'tä), n. pl. [NL., Gr. σίφων, a tube, pipe, + βράγχια, gills, + -ata.] In De Blainville's cla ification (1825), the first order of his Paracephalophora dioica, containing the "families" Siphonosto mat a, Entomostomata, and An gio stomata, and contrasted with the order As i phono branch i at a. See Siphonochlamyda.