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Definition of Dibranchiata
1. Noun. Comprising all living cephalopods except the family Nautilidae: the orders Octopoda (octopuses) and Decapoda (squids and cuttlefish).
Group relationships: Cephalopoda, Class Cephalopoda
Member holonyms: Octopoda, Order Octopoda, Decapoda, Order Decapoda, Belemnoidea, Order Belemnoidea
Generic synonyms: Class
Definition of Dibranchiata
1. n. pl. An order of cephalopods which includes those with two gills, an apparatus for emitting an inky fluid, and either eight or ten cephalic arms bearing suckers or hooks, as the octopi and squids. See Cephalopoda.
Medical Definition of Dibranchiata
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Dibranchiata
Literary usage of Dibranchiata
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Zoological Record ...: Being Records of Zoological Literature by Zoological Record Association (London, England), Zoological Society of London (1881)
"... pair of gills in Nautilus is homologous to the only |i:tir of the dibranchiata,
... xii. ; abstract in JR. Micr. Soc. iii. pp. 601-604. dibranchiata. ..."
2. Elementary Text-book of Zoology by Carl Claus, Adam Sedgwick (1885)
"dibranchiata.* Cephalopoda with two gills in the mantle cavity, eight arms bearing
... The dibranchiata possess round the mouth eight arms provided FIG. ..."
3. A Student's Text-book of Zoology by Adam Sedgwick, Joseph Jackson Lister, Arthur Everett Shipley (1898)
"dibranchiata.* Cephalopoda irith two gills in the mantle-cavity. The appendages
are four pairs of arms with suckers on their oral faces; in the Decapoda ..."
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