Definition of Abrancheata

Definition of Abrancheata

||A*bran`chi*a"ta (&?;), n. pl. [NL., from Gr. 'a priv. + &?;, pl., the gills of fishes.] (Zoöl.) A group of annelids, so called because the species composing it have no special organs of respiration.

- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

(Zoölogy): An obsolete order of annelids, so called because the species composing it have no special organs of respiration.

- The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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