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from The Century Dictionary.
- Situated over or above the gills, as of a fish or mollusk.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Situated above the branchiæ; -- applied especially to the upper division of the gill cavity of bivalve mollusks.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective zoology Situated above the
branchiae ; applied especially to the upper division of thegill cavity ofbivalve mollusks .
Etymologies
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supra- + branchial
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