Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having tufted gills; specifically, pertaining to the Lophobranchii, or having their characters.
  • noun A fish of the order Lophobranchii.

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

  • adjective (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the Lophobranchii.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun zoology Any member of the order Lophobranchii of fishes.

Etymologies

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Ancient Greek

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Examples

  • This high-principled lophobranch is so careful of its callow and helpless young that it carries about the unhatched eggs with him under his own tail, in what scientific ichthyologists pleasantly describe as a subcaudal pouch or cutaneous receptacle.

    Science in Arcady Grant Allen 1873

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