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palliobranchiate

palliobranchiate adjective: belonging to the former class Palliobranchiata; having the pallium, or mantle, acting as a gill, as in certain brachiopods.

Adjective

palliobranchiate (not comparable)

  1. (archaic) Belonging to the former class Palliobranchiata; having the pallium, or mantle, acting as a gill, as in certain brachiopods.
    • palliobranchiate shells

Origin of palliobranchiate

See pallium and branchia.

Questions about palliobranchiate

What does palliobranchiate mean?
Palliobranchiate means belonging to the former class Palliobranchiata; having the pallium, or mantle, acting as a gill, as in certain brachiopods.
What part of speech is palliobranchiate?
Palliobranchiate is an adjective.

Words near palliobranchiate in the dictionary

  1. palling
  2. palling around
  3. palling on
  4. palling up
  5. pallingly
  6. palliobranchiate
  7. Pallion
  8. pallisade
  9. pallisades
  10. pallisado
  11. pallisadoed

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