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Word Meanings - PODOBRANCH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One of branchiæ attached to the bases of the legs in Crustacea.

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  • BRANCHIOSTOMA
    The lancelet. See Amphioxus.
  • 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.
  • CRUSTACEA
    One of the classes of the arthropods, including lobsters and crabs; -- so called from the crustlike shell with which they are covered. Note: The body usually consists of an anterior part, made up of the head and thorax combined, called
  • ATTACH
    tach, nail, E. tack a small nail, tack to fasten. Cf. Attack, and see 1. To bind, fasten, tie, or connect; to make fast or join; as, to attach one thing to another by a string, by glue, or the like. The shoulder blade is . . . attached only to
  • BRANCHIOGASTROPODA
    Those Gastropoda that breathe by branchiæ, including the Prosobranchiata and Opisthobranchiata.
  • BRANCHIOSTEGOUS
    Branchiostegal.
  • BRANCHIOSTEGE
    The branchiostegal membrane. See Illustration in Appendix.
  • BRANCHIOPOD
    One of the Branchiopoda.
  • ATTACHABLE
    Capable of being attached; esp., liable to be taken by writ or precept.
  • BRANCHIOMERISM
    The state of being made up of branchiate segments. R. Wiedersheim.
  • BRANCHIURA
    A group of Entomostraca, with suctorial mouths, including species parasitic on fishes, as the carp lice .
  • ATTACHE
    One attached to another person or thing, as a part of a suite or staff. Specifically: One attached to an embassy.
  • CRUSTACEAN
    Of or pertaining to the Crustacea; crustaceous. -- n.
  • BRANCHIOSTEGAL
    Pertaining to the membrane covering the gills of fishes. -- n.
  • BRANCHIAL
    Of or pertaining to branchiæ or gills. Branchial arches, the bony or cartilaginous arches which support the gills on each side of the throat of fishes and amphibians. See Illustration in Appendix. -- Branchial clefts, the openings between
  • BRANCHIATE
    Furnished with branchiæ; as, branchiate segments.
  • BRANCHIFEROUS
    Having gills; branchiate; as, branchiferous gastropods.
  • ATTACHMENT
    1. The act attaching, or state of being attached; close adherence or affection; fidelity; regard; anas, an attachment to a friend, or to a party. 2. That by which one thing is attached to another; connection; as, to cut the attachments of a muscle.
  • 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.
  • ASPIDOBRANCHIA
    A group of Gastropoda, with limpetlike shells, including the abalone shells and keyhole limpets.
  • LAMELLIBRANCHIATE
    Having lamellar gills; belonging to the Lamellibranchia. -- n.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • CIRROBRANCHIATA
    A division of Mollusca having slender, cirriform appendages near the mouth; the Scaphopoda.
  • INFEROBRANCHIATA
    A suborder of marine gastropod mollusks, in which the gills are between the foot and the mantle.
  • CRYPTOBRANCHIATA
    A division of the Amphibia; the Derotremata. A group of nudibranch mollusks.
  • PERIBRANCHIAL
    Surrounding the branchiæ; as, a peribranchial cavity.

 

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