Word Meanings - BRANCHIATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Furnished with branchiæ; as, branchiate segments.

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• BRANCHIOSTOMA
  The lancelet. See Amphioxus.
• FURNISHMENT
  The act of furnishing, or of supplying furniture; also, furniture. Daniel.
• 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.
• FURNISH
  Pr. formir, furmir, fromir, to accomplish, satisfy, fr. OHG. frumjan to further, execute, do, akin to E. frame. See Frame, v. t., and - 1. To supply with anything necessary, useful, or appropriate; to provide; to equip; to fit out, or fit up; to
• BRANCHIOGASTROPODA
  Those Gastropoda that breathe by branchiæ, including the Prosobranchiata and Opisthobranchiata.
• BRANCHIOSTEGOUS
  Branchiostegal.
• FURNISHER
  One who supplies or fits out.
• BRANCHIOSTEGE
  The branchiostegal membrane. See Illustration in Appendix.
• BRANCHIOPOD
  One of the Branchiopoda.
• 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 .
• 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.
• BRANCHIA
  A gill; a respiratory organ for breathing the air contained in water, such as many aquatic and semiaquatic animals have.
• 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.