SPIRACLE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A breathing orifice

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("spiracle" is a kind of...):

opening; orifice; porta (an aperture or hole that opens into a bodily cavity)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "spiracle"):

blowhole (the spiracle of a cetacean located far back on the skull)

stigma (an external tracheal aperture in a terrestrial arthropod)

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