spiracle

spiracle is a 8-letter English word with 5 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The nostril, or one of the nostrils, of whales, porpoises, and allied animals. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 15 · 5 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The nostril, or one of the nostrils, of whales, porpoises, and allied animals.
2. noun. One of the external openings communicating with the air tubes or tracheae of insects, myriapods, and arachnids. They are variable in number, and are usually situated on the sides of the thorax and abdomen, a pair to a segment. These openings are usually elliptical, and capable of being closed. See Illust. under Coleoptera.
3. noun. A tubular orifice communicating with the gill cavity of certain ganoid and all elasmobranch fishes. It is the modified first gill cleft.
4. noun. Any small aperture or vent for air or other fluid.
5. noun. a breathing orifice

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in spiracle:

calipers, carspiel, replicas

Common word forms

spiracles

Words from these letters

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