siphoˈniferous, a. Zool.
[f. siphon n. + -iferous.]
Having a siphon; siphonate.
Brande Dict. Sci., etc. (1842) 1120 gives Siphonifers as a rendering of mod.L. Siphonifera.
| 1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. I. 519/1 All the other genera..are provided..with an internal siphoniferous polythalamous shell. Ibid. 700/1 In the siphoniferous acephala having the foot short and rudimentary. 1837 Penny Cycl. VII. 432/1 In the siphoniferous branch of the family [Conchifera]. 1858 in Mayne Expos. Lex. |