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Having gills; branchiate; as, branchiferous gastropods.

Fullness of branches.

Furnished with branches; shooting our branches; extending in a branch or branches. Shaded with branching palm. Milton.

Those Gastropoda that breathe by branchiæ, including the Prosobranchiata and Opisthobranchiata.

The state of being made up of branchiate segments. R. Wiedersheim.

One of the Branchiopoda.

An order of Entomostraca; -- so named from the feet of branchiopods having been supposed to perform the function of gills. It includes the fresh-water genera Branchipus, Apus, and Limnadia, and the genus Artemia found in salt lakes. It is also called Phyllopoda. See Phyllopoda, Cladocera. It is sometimes used in a broa…

A branchiostegal ray. See Illustration of Branchial arches in Appendix.

The branchiostegal membrane. See Illustration in Appendix.

Branchiostegal.

The lancelet. See Amphioxus.

A group of Entomostraca, with suctorial mouths, including species parasitic on fishes, as the carp lice (Argulus).

Destitude of branches or shoots; without any valuable product; barren; naked.

A little branch; a twig.

Full of branches; having wide-spreading branches; consisting of branches. Beneath thy branchy bowers of thickest gloom. J. Scott.

With temporary gills: -- applied to those Amphibia in which the gills do not remain in adult life.

A division of annelids in which the gills arise from or near the head. See Tubicola.

The Brazilian kite (Polyborus Brasiliensis); -- so called in imitation of its notes.

A group of nudibranchiate Mollusca having on the back papilliform or branched organs serving as gills.

Pertaining to the bone, or cartilage, below the epibranchial in a branchial arch. -- n.