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. From Wordnik.com. [The Urth of the New Sun]
(In the spiracle is a miniature demibranch, the pseudo-branch. From Wordnik.com. [Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata] Reference
Peritreme: the corneous selerite surrounding a spiracle. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
Laterostigmatal: situated on the side, immediately above the spiracle. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
In fig. 3 the spiracle is shown open, the opening being marked by the letter O. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference
The sun of Yesod had come through the spiracle at the narrow end of the spiral chamber. From Wordnik.com. [The Urth of the New Sun]
Atrium: a chamber just within the spiracle and before the occluding structure to the trachea. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
At this stage the gills are still external, being apparent as red filaments, and, as usual, branchial filaments are also protruded through the spiracle. From Wordnik.com. [Notes on New Zealand Fish] Reference
Aeriductus: a spiracle: the tracheal, gill-like structures of aquatic larvae: more specifically the tail-like extensions of rat-tailed maggots and some aquatic Hemiptera. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
They can be closed at will by special muscles, and, to prevent dust from getting into the tube, the rim of each spiracle has a more or less complicated fringe or strainer. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Evolution] Reference
His vocal power lay in his spiracle, and he said again. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of the Chesapeake] Reference
The tergites prevent air from entering the spiracle and the hornet chokes. From Wordnik.com. [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference
No, he breathes through his spiracle alone; and this is on the top of his head. From Wordnik.com. [Moby Dick, or, the whale] Reference
Just behind the eye is a smaller and more dorsal opening of the same kind, the spiracle (sp.). From Wordnik.com. [Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata] Reference
But a whale can no more force water through its spiracle or blow-hole than you or I through our nostrils. From Wordnik.com. [The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales] Reference
(The head is directed downwards and the tail-siphon with spiracle points upwards to the surface of the water.). From Wordnik.com. [The Life-Story of Insects] Reference
Examine external characters, nasal grooves -- no internal nares -- fins, spiracle, scales passing over lips, and cloaca. From Wordnik.com. [Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata] Reference
Eustachian tube there is a passage, the spiracle (sp.), running out to the exterior just external to the cartilage containing the ear. From Wordnik.com. [Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata] Reference
Foolish, whenever you take the meanness and formality of that thing you do, instead of converting it into the obedient spiracle of your character and aims. From Wordnik.com. [Essays — First Series] Reference
Sperm Whale is the mere vapour of the exhaled breath, or whether that exhaled breath is mixed with water taken in at the mouth, and discharged through the spiracle. From Wordnik.com. [Moby Dick, or, the whale] Reference
It is certain that the mouth indirectly communicates with the spouting canal; but it cannot be proved that this is for the purpose of discharging water through the spiracle. From Wordnik.com. [Moby Dick, or, the whale] Reference
Away he went, reaching my prize just as the last feeble spout exhaled, leaving the dregs of that great flood of life trickling lazily down from the widely expanded spiracle. From Wordnik.com. [The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales] Reference
The whale immediately dives to the bottom; and when forced to come up again to breathe, he repeats the operation and plugs up the other spiracle, so that it cannot get breath and is soon suffocated. From Wordnik.com. [A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 05 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time] Reference
His crescent-shaped tail, thirty-five feet from tip to tip, swept the depths twice or thrice; and when we emerged into the air, the blood spouted from his pores, and he threw cataracts of water through his spiracle. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of the Chesapeake] Reference
"You must have fallen down the spiracle -- that's where we found you. From Wordnik.com. [The Urth of the New Sun]
A spiracle had developed at the apex of my cranium, and I exuded water through a cavity or 'blow-hole' in the top of my head, like the cetacea around me! ". From Wordnik.com. [Tales of the Chesapeake] Reference
Breathing pores: see spiracle. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
Question 7 spiracle. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference
R., rib. sp., the position of the spiracle. From Wordnik.com. [Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata] Reference
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