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Definition of Abranchiate
1. Adjective. Having no gills.
Definition of Abranchiate
1. a. Without gills.
Definition of Abranchiate
1. Adjective. (zoology) Without gills. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Abranchiate
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Abranchiate
Literary usage of Abranchiate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Transactions of the Microscopical Society of London by Microscopical Society of London (1859)
"No one who compares the development of the two will, I think, doubt that in the
fish Cuvier's palatine is the homologue of the palatine of the abranchiate ..."
2. Report by British Association for the Advancement of Science (1852)
"is accomplished in the abranchiate Annelids. Of this division of worms, ...
It will be afterwards proved that between tome species of abranchiate Annelids ..."
3. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Pierre André Latreille (1831)
"The abranchiate have no apparent external organ of respiration whatever, ...
This has caused their division into two families. FAMILY I. abranchiate ..."
4. The Scientific Memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley by Thomas Henry Huxley, Michael Foster (1899)
"No one who compares the development of the two will, I think, doubt that in the
fish Cuvier's palatine is the homo- logue of the palatine of the abranchiate ..."
5. Lectures on the Elements of Comparative Anatomy by Thomas Henry Huxley (1864)
"Like Lepido- siren, the Amphibia have no ossified basi-occipital or supra-
occipital, whereas all the abranchiate Vertebrata possess these bones. ..."
6. The English Cyclopaedia by Charles Knight (1870)
"A similar heterogeneity is met with amongst the abranchiate division. ...
The great majority both of families and species are abranchiate ; and the genera, ..."
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