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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having caducous branchiæ or gills; losing the gills on attaining maturity: applied to amphibians such as the newts, as distinguished from perennibranchiate amphibians.
- n. One of the Caducibranchiata. Also caducibranch.
Wiktionary
- adj. zoology With temporary gills; applied to those amphibians in which the gills do not remain in adult life.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Zoöl.) With temporary gills: -- applied to those Amphibia in which the gills do not remain in adult life.
Etymologies
- Latin caducus falling (from cadere to fall) + English branchiate. (Wiktionary)
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