Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
tetrabranch .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the Tetrabranchiata.
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- adjective zoology Of or relating to the Tetrabranchiata.
- noun zoology Any of the Tetrabranchiata.
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Examples
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It is said truly that the Ammonite, Orthoceras, and Nautilus of these ancient rocks were of the tetrabranchiate division, and none of them so highly organised as the Belemnite and other dibranchiate cephalopods which afterwards appeared, and some of which now flourish in our seas.
The Antiquity of Man Charles Lyell 1836
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