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Webster 1913 Edition


Branchiura

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Bran′chi-u′ra

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Noun.
pl.
[NL., fr., Gr. [GREEK] gill +
οὐρά
tail.]
(Zool.)
A group of Entomostraca, with suctorial mouths, including species parasitic on fishes, as the carp lice (
Argulus
).