dorsibranchiate

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English

Etymology

From dorsi- +‎ branchiate.

Adjective

dorsibranchiate (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete, zoology) Having branchiae along the back; belonging to the former order Dorsibranchiata.

Noun

dorsibranchiate (plural dorsibranchiates)

  1. (obsolete, zoology) Any marine worm of the Dorsibranchiata.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for dorsibranchiate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)