Etymology

caducibranchiate

Today it means: With temporary gills; applied to those amphibians (most amphibians do this) in which the gills do not remain in adult life, but generally turn into legs. Full definition →

Latin caducus
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromcaducus“falling”
  2. English todaycaducibranchiate

From Latin caducus (“falling”) (from cadere (“to fall”)) + English branchiate.

Words from the same roots

Latincaducus all →

caducecaducicorncaducous

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.