Etymology

lophobranch

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Today it means: Any member of the obsolete order Lophobranchii of fishes, now roughly corresponding to order Syngnathiformes. Full definition →

Ancient Greek λόφος
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The story

  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromλόφος“crest”
  2. English todaylophobranch

From Ancient Greek λόφος (lóphos, “crest”) and βράγχια (bránkhia, “gills”).

Words from the same roots

Ancient Greekλόφος all →

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