Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A term sometimes used as synonymous with Abranchia.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Zoöl.) A group of annelids, so called because the species composing it have no special organs of respiration.
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- adjective Used as a
specific epithet ; withoutgills . - noun zoology An obsolete order of
annelids , so called because the speciescomposing it have no special organs of respiration. - noun Any of a number of gill-less animals excluding
Abranchia .
Etymologies
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New Latin, from Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-, "not") + βράγχια (branchia, "gills") + -ata
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From New Latin, from Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-, "not") + βράγχια (branchia, "gills") + -ata
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