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tracheobranchia

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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A breathing-organ of certain aquatic insect-larvæ, combining the character of a gill with that of an ordinary trachea.

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

  • noun (Zoöl.) One of the gill-like breathing organs of certain aquatic insect larvæ. They contain tracheal tubes somewhat similar to those of other insects.

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