Abranchiata :: Abranchiata (n. pl.) A group of annelids, so called because the species composing it have no special organs of respiration..

Abranchiate :: Abranchiate (a.) Without gills.

Absinthiate :: Absinthiate (v. t.) To impregnate with wormwood.

Absinthiated :: Absinthiated (a.) Impregnated with wormwood; as, absinthiated wine..

Archiater :: Archiater (n.) Chief physician; -- a term applied, on the continent of Europe, to the first or body physician of princes and to the first physician of some cities..

Brachiata :: Brachiata (n. pl.) A division of the Crinoidea, including those furnished with long jointed arms. See Crinoidea..

Brachiate :: Brachiate (a.) Having branches in pairs, decussated, all nearly horizontal, and each pair at right angles with the next, as in the maple and lilac..

Branchiate :: Branchiate (a.) Furnished with branchiae; as, branchiate segments..

Caducibranchiate :: Caducibranchiate (a.) With temporary gills: -- applied to those Amphibia in which the gills do not remain in adult life.

Capitibranchiata :: Capitibranchiata (n. pl.) A division of annelids in which the gills arise from or near the head. See Tubicola.

Cirrobranchiata :: Cirrobranchiata (n. pl.) A division of Mollusca having slender, cirriform appendages near the mouth; the Scaphopoda..

Cryptobranchiata :: Cryptobranchiata (n. pl.) A division of the Amphibia; the Derotremata.

Cryptobranchiata :: Cryptobranchiata (n. pl.) A group of nudibranch mollusks.

Cryptobranchiate :: Cryptobranchiate (a.) Having concealed or rudimentary gills.

Cyclobranchiate :: Cyclobranchiate (a.) Having the gills around the margin of the body, as certain limpets..

Dermobranchiata :: Dermobranchiata (n. pl.) A group of nudibranch mollusks without special gills.

Dermobranchiate :: Dermobranchiate (a.) Having the skin modified to serve as a gill.

Dibranchiata :: Dibranchiata (n. pl.) An order of cephalopods which includes those with two gills, an apparatus for emitting an inky fluid, and either eight or ten cephalic arms bearing suckers or hooks, as the octopi and squids. See Cephalopoda..

Dibranchiate :: Dibranchiate (a.) Having two gills.

Dibranchiate :: Dibranchiate (n.) One of the Dibranchiata.

Dorsibranchiata :: dorsibranchiata (n. pl.) A division of chaetopod annelids in which the branchiae are along the back, on each side, or on the parapodia. [See Illusts. under Annelida and Chaetopoda.].

Dorsibranchiate :: Dorsibranchiate (a.) Having branchiae along the back; belonging to the Dorsibranchiata.

Dorsibranchiate :: Dorsibranchiate (n.) One of the Dorsibranchiata.

Elasmobranchiate :: Elasmobranchiate (a.) Of or pertaining to Elasmobranchii.

Elasmobranchiate :: Elasmobranchiate (n.) One of the Elasmobranchii.

Hiation :: Hiation (n.) Act of gaping.

Hiatus :: Hiatus (pl. ) of Hiatu.

Hiatus :: Hiatus (n.) An opening; an aperture; a gap; a chasm; esp., a defect in a manuscript, where some part is lost or effaced; a space where something is wanting; a break..

Hiatus :: Hiatus (n.) The concurrence of two vowels in two successive words or syllables.

Hiatuses :: Hiatuses (pl. ) of Hiatu.

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