tetrabranchiateadj.n.
/tɛtrəˈbraŋkɪət/ Zoology.
A. adj.
Belonging to the Tetrabranchiata, an order of cephalopods (mostly extinct) having four branchiæ or gills.
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tetrabranchiate1835
1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 557/1 The Sepia..manifests..a near affinity to the Tetrabranchiate order.
1851 S. P. Woodward Man. Mollusca i. 78 The shell of the tetrabranchiate cephalopods is an extremely elongated cone.
1872 H. A. Nicholson Man. Palæontol. 189 The Tetrabranchiate forms, with chambered shells, attained their maximum in the..Silurian period.
B. n.
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A cephalopod belonging to this order; a tetrabranch.
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