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Meaning of hyponome | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A tubular organ of a cephalopod, used to expel water.

Examples

“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.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

hyponormality hyponutrition hyponychium hyponym hyponymous hyponymy

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