Palliobranchiate

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Belonging to the former class Palliobranchiata; having the pallium, or mantle, acting as a gill, as in certain brachiopods. archaic, not-comparable

    "palliobranchiate shells"

Etymology

See pallium and branchia.

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