spiracle

English - Turkish

Definition of spiracle in English Turkish dictionary: solunum deliği; {i} hava deliği (balina vb.); (isim) solunum deliği, solungaç yarığı, hava deliği (balina vb.); {i} solungaç yarığı; nefes alıp verme deliği; (Arılık) delik

English - English

Definition of spiracle in English English dictionary: A pore or opening used (especially by spiders and some fish) for breathing; The blowhole of a whale; {n} a breathing hole, small vent, pore; a breathing orifice; Any small aperture or vent for air or other fluid; One of the external openings communicating with the air tubes or tracheæ of insects, myriapods, and arachnids; A tubular orifice communicating with the gill cavity of certain ganoid and all elasmobranch fishes; It is the modified first gill cleft; {i} air hole, opening which allows the passage of air; (Zoology) respiratory aperture (as in whales, sharks, spiders, etc.); These openings are usually elliptical, and capable of being closed; The nostril, or one of the nostrils, of whales, porpoises, and allied animals; They are variable in number, and are usually situated on the sides of the thorax and abdomen, a pair to a segment; under Coleoptera
spiracles: plural of spiracle

spiracle

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spir·a·cle

() Latin spiraculum, from spirare ‘breathe’.

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