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hyponomes

hyponomes is the plural of hyponome.

Meaning of hyponome

Noun

hyponome (plural hyponomes)

  1. A tubular organ of a cephalopod, used to expel water.
    • Ordinarily, it swims forward, but the hyponome can give an emergency spritz, sending the hydrodynamic cone floating backwards at speed with a powerful jet through long thin streamers of brown seaweed and clouds of scattering shrimp.2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherlands, Penguin, published 2023, page 243

Questions about hyponomes

What is hyponomes the plural of?
Hyponomes is the plural of hyponome.

Words near hyponomes in the dictionary

  1. hyponitrosylated
  2. hyponitrous
  3. hyponitrous acid
  4. hyponoia
  5. hyponome
  6. hyponomes
  7. hyponomic
  8. hyponormal
  9. hyponormality
  10. hyponutrition
  11. hyponutritional

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