exhalant
adjective
exhaling; emitting.
exhalent
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a variation of
exhalant.
Example Sentences
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New oscula are formed by a kind of proliferation that renders the structure still more complex than it is when only one exhalent aperture is present.
From Freshwater Sponges, Hydroids & Polyzoa by Nelson Annandale
The eggs are minute, and pass out into the sea-water through the dorsal or exhalent siphon.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" by Various
It will be noted that the diagram represents an individual with a single osculum or exhalent aperture.
From Freshwater Sponges, Hydroids & Polyzoa by Nelson Annandale
They are minute corks, if we may use the term, of coagulated lymp, which close the orifices of some of the pores or exhalent vessels of the skin.
From Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 by Barkham Burroughs
