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‖ phyllobranchia Zool.|fɪləʊˈbræŋkɪə| Pl. -æ. [mod.L., f. Gr. ϕύλλον leaf + βράγχια gills.] Each of the leaf-like, foliaceous, or lamellar gills of certain crustaceans. Also phylloˈbranchial a., of or pertaining to a phyllobranchia; phylloˈbranchiate a., having phyllobranchiæ.
1878Huxley in Proc. Zool. Soc. 4 June 782 The structure.. which obtains in Gebia and Callianassa, which are truly phyllobranchiate. 1880― Crayfish v. 271 The prawn's gills are..phyllobranchiæ;..the central stem of the branchia..bears only two rows of broad flat lamellæ. 1880E. R. Lankester in Nature XXI. 355/2 Crayfishes..differ from prawns..in..being ‘trichobranchiate’ in place of ‘phyllobranchiate’. |