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SPIRACLE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A breathing orifice
Classified under:
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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