Branchia is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.
You can make 230 anagrams from letters in branchia (aabchinr).
1350-1400; Middle English, from Latin branchia “gill” (plural branchiae), from Greek: bránchia “gills,” plural of bránchion “fin”
On each side of the branchia is a series of lamellae, least in number in the Octopoda.
First branchia on each side attached to second somite just in front and mesad of the first setigerous tubercle.
Visceral mass and shell sinistral; inferior pallial lobe very prominent, and transformed into a branchia.
Shell conical, not spiral; inferior pallial lobe transformed into a branchia.
The second branchia attached just caudad of the first on the caudal region of somite III.
This has been called a branchial arm, not that it carried a branchia, but on account of its relation to the respiratory system.
Tadpoles (after they have cast their branchia or gills), newts, and rock fish can be used to the extent of six to the gallon.
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