trichobranchia

English

Etymology

From tricho- +‎ branchia.

Noun

trichobranchia (plural trichobranchiae)

  1. (zoology) The gill of a crustacean in which the branchial filaments are slender and cylindrical, as in the crawfishes.
  • trichobranchiate

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for trichobranchia”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)