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spiracles

n. (plural of spiracle English)

Usage examples of "spiracles".

If you stand on its summit and look at these two f-shaped spout-holes, you would take the whole head for an enormous bass viol, and these spiracles, the apertures in its soundingboard.

Saw-toothed waves of lava vexed the surface of this weird ocean, while on either hand arose jagged crests and spiracles of fantastic shape.

An abdomen with hissing spiracles eclipsed the light, and then the bug was gone.

As the air shrilled through the spiracles on its sides, as its eyes seemed to bulge from the immobile plating on its round head, it struggled to control the emotion that hurried disintegration nearer.

Their breathing echoed in the heavy air, shrilling through the spiracles along their sides.