Definition of "branchiae" []

• Plural form of branchia. (noun)

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• "I must give one instance; he throws doubts and sneers at my saying that the ovigerous frena of cirripedes have been converted into branchiae, because I have not found them to be branchiae; whereas he himself admits, before I wrote on cirripedes, without the least hesitation, that their organs are branchiae."
• "Darwin first saw these creatures in the Indian Ocean, and said that they seek the sea every night to moisten their branchiae."
• "It was a rare chance to find the branchiae preserved."