Word.ws English Dictionary

parabranchial

parabranchial adjective: situated near the gills.

Adjective

parabranchial (not comparable)

  1. Situated near the gills
  2. Relating to parabranchiae

Origin of parabranchial

From para- + branchial.

Questions about parabranchial

What does parabranchial mean?
Parabranchial means situated near the gills.
What part of speech is parabranchial?
Parabranchial is an adjective.

Words near parabranchial in the dictionary

  1. parabotulism
  2. parabrachial
  3. parabrake
  4. parabrakes
  5. parabranchia
  6. parabranchial
  7. parabrandtite
  8. parabrella
  9. parabrellas
  10. parabronchi
  11. parabronchia

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: parabranchial (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “parabranchial.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/parabranchial. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.