Word Meanings - PERENNIBRANCHIATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Having branchæ, or gills, through life; -- said especially of certain Amphibia, like the menobranchus. Opposed to caducibranchiate.
Related words: (words related to PERENNIBRANCHIATE)
- HAVENED
Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats. - BRANCHIOSTOMA
The lancelet. See Amphioxus. - HAVENER
A harbor master. - OPPOSABILITY
The condition or quality of being opposable. In no savage have I ever seen the slightest approach to opposability of the great toe, which is the essential distinguishing feature of apes. A. R. Wallace. - OPPOSITIONIST
One who belongs to the opposition party. Praed. - HAVELOCK
A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke. - BRANCHLESS
Destitude of branches or shoots; without any valuable product; barren; naked. - BRANCHING
Furnished with branches; shooting our branches; extending in a branch or branches. Shaded with branching palm. Milton. - BRANCHIOPODA
An order of Entomostraca; -- so named from the feet of branchiopods having been supposed to perform the function of gills. It includes the fresh-water genera Branchipus, Apus, and Limnadia, and the genus Artemia found in salt lakes. It - BRANCHINESS
Fullness of branches. - OPPOSITIVE
Capable of being put in opposition. Bp. Hall. - OPPOSELESS
Not to be effectually opposed; irresistible. "Your great opposeless wills." Shak. - HAVE
haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2. - AMPHIBIA
One of the classes of vertebrates. Note: The Amphibia are distinguished by having usually no scales, by having eggs and embryos similar to those of fishes, and by undergoing a complete metamorphosis, the young having gills. There are three living - BRANCHY
Full of branches; having wide-spreading branches; consisting of branches. Beneath thy branchy bowers of thickest gloom. J. Scott. - HAVENAGE
Harbor dues; port dues. - OPPOSITIFOLIOUS
Placed at the same node with a leaf, but separated from it by the whole diameter of the stem; as, an oppositifolious peduncle. - THROUGH
thuru, OFries. thruch, D. door, OHG. durh, duruh, G. durch, Goth. ; 1. From end to end of, or from side to side of; from one surface or limit of, to the opposite; into and out of at the opposite, or at another, point; as, to bore through a piece - HAVEN
habe, Dan. havn, Icel. höfn, Sw. hamn; akin to E. have, and hence orig., a holder; or to heave ; or akin to AS. hæf sea, 1. A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor; - CADUCIBRANCHIATE
With temporary gills: -- applied to those Amphibia in which the gills do not remain in adult life. - TECTIBRANCHIA
See TECTIBRANCHIATA - NUDIBRANCHIATA
A division of opisthobranchiate mollusks, having no shell except while very young. The gills are naked and situated upon the back or sides. See Ceratobranchia. - ABRANCHIAL
Abranchiate. - PYGOBRANCHIA
A division of opisthobranchiate mollusks having the branchiæ in a wreath or group around the anal opening, as in the genus Doris. - PODOBRANCH
One of branchiæ attached to the bases of the legs in Crustacea. - ASPIDOBRANCHIA
A group of Gastropoda, with limpetlike shells, including the abalone shells and keyhole limpets. - LAMELLIBRANCHIATE
Having lamellar gills; belonging to the Lamellibranchia. -- n. - ASCERTAINMENT
The act of ascertaining; a reducing to certainty; a finding out by investigation; discovery. The positive ascertainment of its limits. Burke. - EPIBRANCHIAL
Pertaining to the segment between the ceratobranchial and pharyngobranchial in a branchial arch. -- n. - HYPOBRANCHIAL
Pertaining to the segment between the basibranchial and the ceratobranchial in a branchial arch. -- n. - PULMOBRANCHIATA; PULMOBRANCHIATE
See -ATE (more info) & n. - ASCERTAINABLE
That may be ascertained. -- As`cer*tain"a*ble*ness, n. -- As`cer*tain"a*bly, adv. - PERENNIBRANCHIATE
Having branchæ, or gills, through life; -- said especially of certain Amphibia, like the menobranchus. Opposed to caducibranchiate. - TECTIBRANCHIATE
Having the gills covered by the mantle; of or pertaining to the Tectibranchiata. -- n. - SCYPHOBRANCHII
An order of fishes including the blennioid and gobioid fishes, and other related families. - DERMOBRANCHIATE
Having the skin modified to serve as a gill.