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Webster 1913 Edition

Capitibranchiata

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Capˊi-ti-branˊchi-a′ta

,

Noun.

pl.

[NL., from L.

caput

,

capitis

, head +

-branchiae

gills.]

(Zool.)

A division of annelids in which the gills arise from or near the head. See

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