Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Siphonobranchiata

Siphonobranchiata , noun, plural

[New Latin See Siphon, and Branchia.]

(Zoology) A tribe of gastropods having the mantle border, on one or both sides, prolonged in the form of a spout through which water enters the gill cavity. The shell itself is not always siphonostomatous in this group.