Spiracle

What do we mean by spiracle?

A respiratory aperture, especially. noun

Any of several tracheal openings in the exoskeleton of an insect, spider, or other terrestrial arthropod. noun

A small respiratory opening behind the eye of most sharks and rays and certain other fishes. noun

The blowhole of a cetacean. noun

An aperture or opening through which air is admitted and expelled. noun

A vent for small explosive outbreaks, produced upon the surface of a still highly heated and at least partially molten lava-stream by the escape of imprisoned vapors. A little cone of ejected clots may gather around it. noun

An aperture or orifice. noun

In zoology, an aperture, orifice, or vent through which air, vapor, or water passes in the act of respiration; a breathing-hole; a spiraculum: applied to many different formations. noun

The nostril, or one of the nostrils, of whales, porpoises, and allied animals. noun

One of the external openings communicating with the air tubes or tracheæ of insects, myriapods, and arachnids. They are variable in number, and are usually situated on the sides of the thorax and abdomen, a pair to a segment. These openings are usually elliptical, and capable of being closed. See Illust. under Coleoptera. noun

A tubular orifice communicating with the gill cavity of certain ganoid and all elasmobranch fishes. It is the modified first gill cleft. noun

Any small aperture or vent for air or other fluid. noun

A pore or opening used (especially by spiders and some fish) for breathing. noun

The blowhole of a whale. noun

Any small aperture or vent for air or other fluid. noun

A breathing orifice 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.

Words that are spelled similarly to spiracle:
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Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word spiracle:
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Words that rhyme with spiracle:
empirical, miracle, lyrical, satirical, spiricle.

Adjectives that are often used to describe spiracle:
posterior, abdominal, anterior, thoracic, first, mesothoracic, single, prothoracic, second, tracheal, propodeal, metathoracic, small, last, large, obedient, sinistral, eighth, left, open, right, median, distinct, acoustic, least, seventh, ipsilateral, lateral, dorsal, larval, largest, rudimentary, functional, contralateral, oblong, enlarged, shaped, 1st, caudal, tympanic, adjacent, round, interior, denervated, minute, branchial, tiny, anal, unpaired.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective spiracle:
sinistral, lateral, present, minute, stage, larvae, solitary.

Consonant match to spiracle:
spiricle.

Words that sound like spiracle:
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