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nucleobranch

nucleobranch adjective: belonging to the Nucleobranchiata, a obsolete order of molluscs that have the gills packed in the shell along with the heart, such sea snails now mostly classified in the order Littorinimorpha.

Adjective

nucleobranch (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Belonging to the Nucleobranchiata, a obsolete order of molluscs that have the gills packed in the shell along with the heart, such sea snails now mostly classified in the order Littorinimorpha.

Noun

nucleobranch (plural nucleobranchs)

  1. (obsolete) One of the order Nucleobranchiata.

Forms of nucleobranch

pluralnucleobranchs

Questions about nucleobranch

What does nucleobranch mean?
Nucleobranch means belonging to the Nucleobranchiata, a obsolete order of molluscs that have the gills packed in the shell along with the heart, such sea snails now mostly classified in the order Littorinimorpha.
What part of speech is nucleobranch?
Nucleobranch can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near nucleobranch in the dictionary

  1. nucleoalbuminuria
  2. nucleobase
  3. nucleobases
  4. nucleobindin
  5. nucleobindins
  6. nucleobranch
  7. nucleobranchs
  8. nucleocapsid
  9. nucleocapsids
  10. nucleocentric
  11. nucleocentrosomal

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