The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromμένω“to remain”
- English todaymenobranchus
From the superseded genus name Menobranchus (Harlan, 1824), from Ancient Greek μένω (ménō, “to remain”) + βρᾰ́γχῐον (brắnkhĭon, “gill, branchia”), because the external branchiae are permanent, unlike those of some other amphibians.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekμένω all →
menobranchmenopome
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.