branchia
noun
a gill.
branchiae
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pluralof branchia.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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It was a rare chance to find the branchiae preserved.
From Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2 by Thomas Henry Huxley
There it rests with expanded branchiae and moving cilia; a rude passer-by jostles it, and with startled sensitiveness it shrinks from the outer world and hides behind a stony mask.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 04, February, 1858 by Various
It is probable that the Silurian scorpion was an aquatic animal, and that its respiratory lamellae were still projecting from the surface of the body to serve as branchiae.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" by Various
Further, the Pleurotomariidae have been discovered to possess two branchiae.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" by Various
The ovigerous frena of certain cirripedes, which have ceased to give attachment to the ova and are feebly developed, are nascent branchiae.
From The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin
