Word Meanings - PYGOBRANCHIA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A division of opisthobranchiate mollusks having the branchiæ in a wreath or group around the anal opening, as in the genus Doris.

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• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• OPENNESS
  The quality or state of being open.
• BRANCHIOSTOMA
  The lancelet. See Amphioxus.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• DIVISIONARY
  Divisional.
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• DIVISIONALLY
  So as to be divisional.
• BRANCHING
  Furnished with branches; shooting our branches; extending in a branch or branches. Shaded with branching palm. Milton.
• OPEN SEA
  A sea open to all nations. See Mare clausum.
• 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.
• WREATHLESS
  Destitute of a wreath.
• 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.
• WREATHE
  1. To cause to revolve or writhe; to twist about; to turn. And from so heavy sight his head did wreathe. Spenser. 2. To twist; to convolve; to wind one about another; to entwine. The nods and smiles of recognition into which this singular
• WREATH-SHELL
  A marine shell of the genus Turbo. See Turbo.
• DORISM
  A Doric phrase or idiom.
• AROUND
  1. In a circle; circularly; on every side; round. 2. In a circuit; here and there within the surrounding space; all about; as, to travel around from town to town. 3. Near; in the neighborhood; as, this man was standing around when the fight took
• HAVENAGE
  Harbor dues; port dues.
• 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;
• OPEN
  1. Free of access; not shut up; not closed; affording unobstructed ingress or egress; not impeding or preventing passage; not locked up or covered over; -- applied to passageways; as, an open door, window, road, etc.; also, to inclosed structures
• 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.
• PROPENE
  See PROPYLENE
• 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.
• MISDIVISION
  Wrong division.
• PROPENSE
  Leaning toward, in a moral sense; inclined; disposed; prone; as, women propense to holiness. Hooker. -- Pro*pense"ly, adv. -- Pro*pense"ness, n.