nucleobranch

English edit

Adjective edit

nucleobranch (not comparable)

(zoology) Belonging to the Nucleobranchiata, an order of molluscs that have the gills packed in the shell along with the heart.

Noun edit

nucleobranch (plural nucleobranchs)

(zoology) One of the Nucleobranchiata.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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