pulmobranchiæ love

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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Gills or branchiæ modified into organs of aërial respiration; the respiratory apparatus peculiar to certain animals. The lung-sacs of air-breathing mollusks, as snails. See cut under Pulmonata.
  • The lung-sacs of certain arachnidans, as spiders; the pulmotracheæ. See cuts under pulmonary and Scorpionidæ.

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