Meanings
comparative more branchiform · superlative most branchiform · alternative branchiiform
- biologyGill-shaped.
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The ear-shaped or branchiform stigma of Otostigma and Branchiostoma is due to the oblique form of the cone along a small part of its length; on the base of the stigmata of these forms there appear a few of those irregular darkly coloured patches, beset with small hooks, which are so common in the Chilopoda.
1887, “Summary or Current Researches Relating to Zoology and Botany […]”, in Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society, Part I, London; Edinburgh: […] Williams & Norgate, page 386
Origin
- Latinbranchia
- Englishbranchiform
From Latin branchia, branchiae (“gills”) + -form.
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