metabranchial

English

Etymology

meta- +‎ branchial

Adjective

metabranchial (not comparable)

1. (zoology) Of or pertaining to the lobe of the carapace of crabs covering the posterior branchiae.

   metabranchial lobe

   metabranchial maargin

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “metabranchial”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)