Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Breathing by means of the mantle, or supposed to do so; specifically, of or pertaining to the Palliobranchiata.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Having the pallium, or mantle, acting as a gill, as in brachiopods.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective zoology Having the
pallium , ormantle , acting as agill , as inbrachiopods .
Etymologies
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See pallium and branchia.
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