caducibranchiate
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin caducus (“falling”) (from cadere (“to fall”)) + English branchiate.
Adjective
editcaducibranchiate (not comparable)
- (zoology) With temporary gills; applied to those amphibians in which the gills do not remain in adult life.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “caducibranchiate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)