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Branchial

adjective
1.
Of or relating to gills (or to parts of the body derived from embryonic gills).



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... tails for swimming as any of their kindred, although as tadpoles they never enter the water; that the Guinea-pig is furnished with incisor teeth which it never uses, as it sheds them before birth; that embryos of mammals and birds have branchial slits and arteries running in loops, in imitation or reminiscence of the arrangement which is permanent in fishes; and that thousands of animals and plants have rudimentary organs which, at least in ...
— Evolution and Ethics and Other Essays • Thomas H. Huxley


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