Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Situated behind the gills: specifically applied to a posterolateral subdivision of the branchial region of the carapace of a crab, behind and to one side of the mesobranchial division, called the metabranchial lobe. See cut under
Brachyura .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the lobe of the carapace of crabs covering the posterior branchiæ.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective zoology Of or pertaining to the
lobe of thecarapace ofcrabs covering theposterior branchiae .
Etymologies
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meta- + branchial
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