branchia

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   zoology: a gill or another respiratory organ with the same function in an aquatic animal

   Each branchia extracts dissolved oxygen from the water passing over it.

From Latin branchia, borrowed from Ancient Greek brankhia, 'gills,' the plural of brankhion, 'fin.' English preserves the learned singular branchia and the plural branchiae.

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