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Webster 1913 Edition


Abranchiata

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A-branˊchi-a′ta

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Noun.
pl.
[NL., from Gr.
ἀ
priv. + [GREEK], pl., the gills of fishes.]
(Zool.)
A group of annelids, so called because the species composing it have no special organs of respiration.