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Webster 1913 Edition

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Noun.

pl.

[NL., fr. Gr.

λόφοσ

a crest or tuft +

βράγχιον

gill.]

(Zool.)

An order of teleostean fishes, having the gills arranged in tufts on the branchial arches, as the Hippocampus and pipefishes.