(definition) by Webster 1913 Tue Dec 21 1999 at 21:35:34

A*bran`chi*a"ta (#), n. pl. [NL., from Gr. priv. + , pl., the gills of fishes.] Zool.

A group of annelids, so called because the species composing it have no special organs of respiration.

 

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