Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A filamentous gill characteristic of most long-tailed ten-footed crustaceans, consisting of a stem beset with many cylindrical filaments, as distinguished from the lamellar gills, or phyllobranchiæ, of many other crustaceans. The developed arthrobranchiæ, pleurobranchiæ, and podobranchiæ of crawfishes are all of the trichobranchial type.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The gill of a crustacean in which the branchial filaments are slender and cylindrical, as in the crawfishes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun zoology The
gill of acrustacean in which thebranchial filaments are slender andcylindrical , as in thecrawfishes .
Etymologies
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From Ancient Greek hair + branchia.
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