tetrabranchn.adj.
/ˈtɛtrəbraŋk/ Zoology.
A. n.
A four-gilled cephalopod: see tetrabranchiate n.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Cephalopoda > [noun] > order Tetrabranchiata > member of
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1851 S. P. Woodward Man. Mollusca i. 82 The tetrabranchs could undoubtedly swim, by their respiratory jets.
1877 J. Le Conte Elements Geol. (1879) ii. 305 If we divide all known Cephalopods into Dibranchs (two-gilled) and Tetrabranchs (four-gilled).
B. adj.
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= tetrabranchiate adj. ( Cent. Dict. 1891).
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