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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In ornithology, one of several branches given off laterally and dorsally from the mesobronchium or prolongation of the bronchus.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Anat.) One of the dorsal branches of the main bronchi in the lungs of birds.

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  • noun A dorsal branch of the avian mesobronchium or prolongation

Etymologies

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From ecto- +‎ bronchium

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