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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as pleurobranchia.

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

  • noun (Zoöl.) Any one of the gills of a crustacean that is attached to the side of the thorax.

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

  • noun zoology Any of the gills of a crustacean that are attached to the side of the thorax.

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