prosobranchiate
prosobranchiate adjective: synonym of prosobranch (“having the gills anterior to the heart”).
Adjective
prosobranchiate (not comparable)
- Synonym of prosobranch (“having the gills anterior to the heart”).
- a prosobranchiate gastropod
- Synonyms:
- prosobranch
Noun
prosobranchiate (plural prosobranchiates)
- Synonym of prosobranch (“a gastropod with gills anterior to the heart”).
- An external shell, usually sufficiently large to contain the entire animal, is common to all the prosobranchiates.1880, George W[ashington] Tryon, Jr., “Prosobranchiata”, in Manual of Conchology; Structural and Systematic. […], volume II (Muricinæ, Purpurinæ), Philadelphia, Pa.: […] [T]he Author, Academy of...
- Pulmonate freshwater snails are found in every type of fresh water, as one might expect, and equally predictably the prosobranchiates are found only in streams and rivers.1974, Philip Street, “Molluscs”, in Animal Reproduction, Newton Abbot, Devon: David & Charles, →ISBN, page 151
- Synonyms:
- prosobranch
Synonyms of prosobranchiate
Forms of prosobranchiate
| plural | prosobranchiates |
|---|
Origin of prosobranchiate
From the taxonomic name Prosobranchia + -ate. By surface analysis, proso- + branchiate. Compare the taxonomic name Prosobranchiata.
Questions about prosobranchiate
- What does prosobranchiate mean?
- Prosobranchiate means synonym of prosobranch (“having the gills anterior to the heart”).
- What part of speech is prosobranchiate?
- Prosobranchiate can be an adjective or a noun.
Words near prosobranchiate in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: prosobranchiate (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: “prosobranchiate.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/prosobranchiate. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.