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MOUTH ORGAN [5 records]

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Record 1 2022-10-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Wind Instruments
DEF

A small rectangular wind instrument with free reeds recessed in air slots from which tones are sounded by exhaling and inhaling.

OBS

French harp: chiefly used in Midland United States.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments de musique à vent
DEF

Instrument à vent, formé d'un boîtier dont les cavités contiennent des anches métalliques qui vibrent au passage du souffle, que l'on glisse horizontalement entre les lèvres.

Key term(s)
  • ruine-babine

Spanish

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Record 2 2016-01-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sponges, Hydrozoans and Jellyfish
Universal entry(ies)
Actinaria
Latin
OBS

Most of the soft-bodied anthozoans known as "sea anemones" are classified in the Actinaria. Actinarians have generally column-shaped bodies with the mouth at one end, and the pedal disk--a muscular organ for attachment to substrates--at the other. The mouth is on a corresponding structure, the oral disk, which is ringed with rows of tentacles. Actinarian anemones can reproduce either sexually or asexually, but they do not form true colonies with permanent tissue connections between members.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Éponges, hydres et méduses
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
Actinaria
Latin
OBS

Anémones isolés sans squelette calcaire. Tentacules souvent multiples de 6.

Spanish

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Record 3 2013-07-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
DEF

A circular or horseshoe-shaped organ about the mouth especially of a brachiopod or bryozoan that bears tentacles and functions especially in food-getting.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
CONT

La bouche [d'un bryozoaire] est entourée d'un lophophore, c'est-à-dire d'une couronne de tentacules creux, ciliés : leurs mouvements et des ondulations de leurs cils apportent à la bouche des particules alimentaires.

Spanish

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Record 4 1998-07-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • The Mouth
DEF

Moveable muscular organ on the floor of the mouth.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Cavité buccale
DEF

Organe musculaire mobile du plancher de la bouche.

Spanish

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Record 5 1986-02-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sponges, Hydrozoans and Jellyfish
DEF

A bell-shaped swimming organ in some siphonophores composed of a greatly modified zooid without mouth or tentacles and serving to propel the colony by its rhythmical contractions.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Éponges, hydres et méduses
DEF

Partie convexe de la masse généralement transparente d'une méduse, d'où partent les tentacules.

Spanish

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