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branchi-
- variant of branchio- before a vowel.
Example Sentences
Elasmobranchiate, e-las-mo-brang′ki-āt, adj. pertaining to a class, subclass, or order of fishes including sharks and skates, having lamellar branchi� or plate-like gills.
Respiration is achieved by the passage of water over double gills or branchi�; the water, after it has completed its purpose, being ejected through a moderately long tube, technically called a siphon.
It is said, however, that they frequently lose their gills like the other members of the genus, though some authorities maintain that the true axolotl never loses its gills, and that merely confusion with A. tigrīnum has led to the belief, as this species sometimes retains its branchi�, though usually it loses them.
They have red, rarely yellow or green, blood circulating in a double system of contractile vessels, a double ganglionated nervous cord, and respire by external branchi�, internal vesicles, or by the skin.
Amphib�ia, a class of vertebrate animals, which in their early life breathe by gills or branchi�, and afterwards partly or entirely by lungs.
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Words That Use Branchi-
What does branchi- mean?
Branchi- is a combining form used like a prefix meaning “gills.” It is used in some scientific terms.
Branchi- comes from the Greek bránchia, meaning “gills,” plural of bránchion, “fin.” Bránchia is also the source of the English word branchia, meaning “gill.” Learn more at our entry for the word.
Branchi- is a variant of branchio-, which loses its -o– when combined with words or word elements beginning with vowels.
Want to know more? Read our Words That Use branchio- article.
Examples of branchi-
An example of a term from biology that features the combining form branchi- is branchiform, “shaped like a gill.”
As we have seen, the first part of the word, branchi-, means “gill.” The second part of the word, -form, is a combining form meaning “having the form of,” as you may have guessed. Branchiform literally translates to “gill-formed.”
What are some words that use the combining form branchi-?
What are some other forms that branchi- may be commonly confused with?
While they share the letters branchi-, the word branching and the combining form branchi- are not related. Find out where branch comes from at our entry for this word.
Break it down!
Based on the meaning branchi-, what does the adjective branchial mean?
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